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Here is a gorgeous on-line full version (including illustrations) of the very first American novel to become a "best-seller", and written by a young woman no less, a definite feather in the cap of Women's Study scholars. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/warner-susan/wide/wide.html...

You might consider glancing at this scholarly work of five volumes http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Complete/Series/FP.html The Fundamentalism Project A series from the University of Chicago Press Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, Editors Page one of volume one makes the...

- from the movie Shall We Dance.

I was so shocked the day I first realized the possible interpretation that Oscar Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray in order to demonstrate his perception of the ugliness inherent in the Christian notion that all sins may be forgiven. Wilde may have seen such forgiveness as sort of sweeping...

Well, the story is only 30 pages. I happened to see the movie first and afterwards read the story. The DVD was released this week. I would suggest getting the DVD, or renting it, and seeing the movie first. There is one very minor aspect of the story which is in great conflict with...

The word ”love” occurs four times in the short story Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx. Sometimes it happens that the strongest statement in a work makes itself hear loudly by its absence. Why is it that Jack and Ennis never say this word, love, to one another? What is Proulx saying...

If you were to choose this name, you could feature in your window a display of seven books, to be changed each week.

Here are some reading suggestions which may possibly serve a two-fold purpose of renewing your appetite for reading, as well as helping you to gain a different perspective on what troubles you. Years ago, a counselor suggested that I read, “When You Meet the Buddha On the Road, Kill Him” by...

It would make sense, if possible. to increase the mail box size for moderators, since their job requires the most intensive use of PM; just my suggestion.

You received my first reply, but not my postscript/afterthought.

I tried to reply but your mail box is full. I saved my PM and shall send it later.

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If you depend on a public library for internet access, then your time will be really limited. You will not be able to install chat clients like mIRC. Too bad you cant get dial up access from your home, or cable, or wireless wi-fi access. I wonder of NetZero dialup is available there for $10 per...

http://www.netauthor.org/e2k/stacks/INTERV_fawn.html The above link mentions an IRC channel on undernet, #Authors . You would need to download and install the free mIRC chat client, and learn a few commands. Here is a link to learn more about mIRC chat client http://mirc.net/...

Below is a link to a page listing many DeLillo detractors, followed by some other links of interest related to Myers' Manifesto. http://perival.com/delillo/detractors.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,59856,00.html http://www.mobylives.com/When_Writers_Attack.html...

Seriously, I have seen "boot camps" for Visual Basic programmers. There are camps or retreats or workshops for aspiring writers. There is a monthly magazine for writers which advertises such camps or workshops. In a sense, my four years at St. John's "Great Books" program was a very long...

What a shame you learned nothing of comedy. (just kidding... could not resist)

I know that there are many different translations of the Iliad. I seem to see a new one every decade or so. I am not aware of so many translations of Kundera's novel. Later, I will find my copy, and post details here, but it is probably the same one you would find in a google search...

I have also forwarded a cc of my above e-mail to Morgan Lang, son of Annie Proulx, who runs http://www.annieproulx.com Should I receive any response from the above parties, I shall let you know in this thread.

A discussion of B.R. Myers “A Reader’s Manifesto”, which criticizes Proulx, DeLillo and several other authors, claiming that they are pretentious and obscure. http://www.thebookforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10519 After Annie Proulx (public enemy #1), author Don DeLillo is number...