Monthly Archives: May 2012

The Brave New World of Twitterature

Depending on your point of view, literature reduced to tweets is either comic or horrifying.

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Mitt’s Favorite Book: Sci Fi Nostalgia

Mitt Romney’s favorite novel, “Battleship Earth,” is a throwback to an America that no longer exists.

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Author PTSD Led to Billy Pilgrim, Holden

It can be argued that “Slaughterhouse Five” and “Catcher in the Rye” were both shaped by their authors suffering from PTSD.

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Memorializing Our Lost Innocence

Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting” is not only about the soldiers who have died but how their death taints the living.

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Pentecost, When All Heaven Breaks Loose

Ken Sehested’s Pentecost poem says we have become acclimated to a culture of war and calls for us to break loose.

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America’s Avian Maestro, the Mockingbird

Tom Robbins and Scott Bates regard the mockingbird as an emblem for the consummate artist.

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Have We Becomes Pottersville?

Using “It’s a Wonderful Life” as a lens through which to view the J. P. Morgan recent financial disaster shows what America has lost in today’s banks.

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Lit Explains Romney’s Off-Putting Laugh

Lewis Carroll, Kundera, and Dostoevsky help us understand why Mitt Romney’s laugh makes us nervous.

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Parents, Kids, Schools & Banned Books

Parents pressure schools to ban books because they want to protect their children. Their children want the books because they have a different set of needs.

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