Monthly Archives: March 2010
The Right Answer, And Other Nonexistent Things
by Thomas Mullen, author of Last Town on Earth (Random House, 2007). When reading works of fiction, students often think that there’s a right answer for how they’re supposed to respond to the book. Surely (as they’re sometimes taught in … Continue reading
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Kristof’s NYT piece, “Divorced Before Puberty”
This week, in a New York Times Op-Ed piece, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Nicholas D. Kristof, who is also co-author of Half of the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Knopf, 2009), talks about an amazing new book, I Am Nujood, … Continue reading
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Why Jane Austen is THE Best Novelist of Our Time
by Susannah Carson, author of A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (Random House, 2009). “Can Jane Austen’s novels be considered the best novels of our time?” “Why yes,” I responded, with the bewildered … Continue reading
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