Tag Archive for ‘Banned Books Week’
Don’t Know Much About® Walt Whitman
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear. Born on May 31, 1819 in West Hills, New York, Walt Whitman changed the way we thought about poetry. He “heard America singing.” And his work has inspired some, bedeviled others (mostly students) and stood as the work of a unique American voice for more [Read More]
Bloomsday (2011)
“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan. . .” With those words, James Joyce (February 2, 1882-January 13, 1941) opened Ulysses, chosen in 1999 as the greatest novel of the 20th century by the Modern Library. The novel follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus on their wanderings through Dublin on a single day –June 16 1904. That makes [Read More]
“Sicko Ants on a Crucifix”
Censorship is riding high. It is once again as American as apple pie, assassinations and anti-immigrant vitriol.
The N-word is for “Nonsense”
A work that aspires, however, humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. The great novelist Joseph Conrad wrote those words in a literary manifesto called “A Preface to the Nigger of the ‘Narcissus.’ ” Oops, I mean “Slave of the Narcissus.” Or should it be “The Children of the [Read More]
Happy Bloomsday 2011!
“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan. . .” With those words, James Joyce (February 2, 1882-January 13, 1941) opened Ulysses, chosen in 1999 as the greatest novel of the 20th century by the Modern Library. The novel follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus on their wanderings through Dublin on a single day –June 16 1904. That makes [Read More]
DKMA Minute #4 Melville: Chasing White Whales
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DKMA Minute #5 A Touch of Frost
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DKMA Minute #7 Banned Books Week
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