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  1. “Paradise” (1994) - Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Bildungsroman Set in Colonized Tanzania, Taking Place Shortly before WWI

    By DonRocks,   
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  2. "Parker Looks Up - an Extraordinary Moment" - A Children's Book by Jessica and Parker Harris about her Trip to the National Portrait Gallery

    By DIShGo,   
    • 1 reply
    • 186 views

  3. "A Worn Path" (1941) - Gripping, Enigmatic, Short-Short Story by Eudora Welty

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 62 views

  4. "Front Row at the Trump Show" (2020) by ABC News White House Correspondent Jon Karl

    By DonRocks,   
    • 3 replies
    • 216 views

  5. "The Laugher" (1966) - An Extremely Short, Reflective Story by Heinrich Böll

    By DonRocks,   
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    • 62 views

  6. "Who vs. Whom" towards the End of a Sentence

    By DonRocks,   
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    • 108 views

  7. "XKCD" (2005-), a Web Comic by Illustrator Randall Munroe

    By DanielK,   
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    • 171 views

  8. "What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions" (2014) by Randall Munroe

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 61 views

  9. Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) French Author and Philosopher, Author of "Candide"

    By DonRocks,   
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    • 97 views

  10. Toni Morrison (1931-2019) - Nobel Prize-Winning Author of "Beloved" and "Song of Solomon"

    By DonRocks,   
    • 2 replies
    • 97 views

  11. Sullivan Ballou (1829-1861) - Union Soldier from Rhode Island, Author of One Surviving Letter

    By DonRocks,   
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    • 78 views

  12. Regional Expressions and Colloquialisms

    By DonRocks,   
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    • 340 views

  13. "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" (1865) - by Walt Whitman

    By DonRocks,   
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    • 130 views

  14. "The Remains of the Day" (1988) - Nobel Prize Author Kazuo Ichiguro's Masterpiece of Old-World Tone

    By DonRocks,   
    • 4 replies
    • 136 views

  15. "Let Us Now End American Colonialism" (1955) - Ernest Gruening's Speech to the Alaska Constitutional Convention

    By DonRocks,   
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    • 75 views

  16. Faux Amis ("False Friends") - The Bane of Every French Student

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 105 views

  17. "Tolkein: Maker of Middle-Earth" (Jan 25 - May 12, 2019) - The Morgan Library & Museum, Manhattan

    By Tweaked,   
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    • 82 views

  18. "Koi No Yokan" - an Untranslatable Japanese Expression Describing 'The Feeling Before Love'

    By DonRocks,   
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    • 84 views

  19. Annoying Words and Expressions

    By DonRocks,   
    • 36 replies
    • 894 views

  20. C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) - British Author, Scholar, and Theologian

    By DonRocks,   
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    • 168 views

  21. A Bloat of Hippos, and other Collective Animal Nouns

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 157 views

  22. Pat Conroy (1945-2016) - Southern Novelist and Memoirist, Author of "The Prince of Tides" and "The Great Santini"

    By DaveO,   
    • 1 reply
    • 145 views

  23. "Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness" (1996), aka "The String Theory," by David Foster Wallace

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 711 views

  24. Ntozake Shange (1948 - 2018) - American Playwright and Poet, Best Known for "When Colored Girls ...."

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 108 views

  25. "The Monkey's Paw" (1902) - Classic Supernatural Tale of "The Three Wishes," by W. W. Jacobs

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 119 views

  26. "The Story of an Hour" (1894) by Kate Chopin - a Woman's Freedom, Dramatically Denied

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 204 views

  27. "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843) - Edgar Allan Poe's Classic Short-Short of Psychological Self-Immolation

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 208 views

  28. “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” (2017) - Memoir by J. D. Vance

    By curiouskitkatt,   
    • 10 replies
    • 204 views

  29. What Are Your Favorite Books, And Why?

    By NolaCaine,   
    • 0 replies
    • 113 views

  30. V.S. Naipaul (1932-2018) Trinidadian Author, and Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 119 views

  31. "The Lion's Share" - What Does It Really Mean?

    By DonRocks,   
    • 3 replies
    • 167 views

  32. Typing the Number of Spaces after a Period - Should it be One or Two?

    By Ericandblueboy,   
    • 2 replies
    • 164 views

  33. "A Brief History of Time" (1988) - Stephen Hawking's Best-Seller about the Origins of the Cosmos

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 162 views

  34. The Atlantic (Formerly The Atlantic Monthly, 1857-) - Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg's Literary and Cultural Gem

    By DonRocks,   
    • 5 replies
    • 337 views

  35. Ethnic Slurs in the English Lexicon

    By Ericandblueboy,   
    • 9 replies
    • 254 views

  36. Virginia Woolf (Jan 25, 1882 - Mar 28, 1941) - English Author Noted for Pioneering Steam-of-Consciousness Writing

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 167 views

  37. Lie vs. Lay, when Used as a Reflexive Verb

    By DonRocks,   
    • 3 replies
    • 370 views

  38. Cowboy Jargon and Terms - Found on cowboyfrank.net

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 201 views

  39. "Dune" (1965) Frank Herbert's Borderline-Legendary Science Fiction Novel

    By DanielK,   
    • 3 replies
    • 165 views

  40. "Hinky" - A Word Gone Obsolete in One or Two Generations

    By DonRocks,   
    • 27 replies
    • 961 views

  41. Harlan Ellison (1934-), Speculative Fiction Writer, Best Known for Televised Adaptions of His Work

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 203 views

  42. "War and Peace" ( Война и Mир, 1869) - Russian Author Leo Tolstoy's Legendary Novel about the Napoleonic Wars' Effects on Russia via Stories of Five Aristocratic Russian Families

    By DonRocks,   
    • 2 replies
    • 281 views

  43. Mondegreens (1954-) - Midunderstood or Misheard Lyrics to Songs

    By DonRocks,   
    • 5 replies
    • 299 views

  44. "Ozymandias" (1818) - Romantic Poem about Hubris, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Antepenultimate Episode of Breaking Bad

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 207 views

  45. "The Brooks Robinson Story" (1967) - Biography by Sportswriter Jack Zanger

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 223 views

  46. "Red Sorghum" (1986) - 2012 Nobel Prize Winner Mo Yan's First Novel, a Family History Taking Place over Decades

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 312 views

  47. "The Tin Drum" (1959) Gunter Grass' Allegorical Masterpiece about Oskar Matzerath, and One of the Most Important Novels of the Twentieth Century

    By DIShGo,   
    • 3 replies
    • 588 views

  48. The Nobel Prize in Literature, Revisited

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 290 views

  49. Greenberg vs. Greenburg, and Other Orthographic, Onomastic Ordeals

    By DonRocks,   
    • 4 replies
    • 364 views

  50. Leonard Cohen (1934-2016), Legendary Canadian Singer, Songwriter, Poet, and Novelist

    By MC Horoscope,   
    • 10 replies
    • 503 views
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