Category: american-literature-twilight
- Let Me Tell YaBout the Birds and the Bees I’m sure many of you read the horrifying news in a recent New York Times Magazine that young people are learning about sex from porn that they see on the Internet. Yikes! Fellas! (And girls!) It’s not like that! It’s not anything like that! I’m not saying don’t watch (what ...Read more
- He Showed UpLevi G. 1953-2017 I won’t say that Levi was my best friend in the world—I have many wonderful friends—but he was the friend with whom I most resonated. When I was in Asheville we met every week for a couple hours, having breakfast and drinking coffee. As soon as we sat down we fell into the ...Read more
- True Book ManJay Dantry 1928-2016 When I look back on the influences on my life, I think readers have been more important than writers, and bookstores more important than teachers. That isn’t to diminish the influence of men like Reynolds Price and Wallace Fowlie at Duke, or my high school teacher David Britton, who was a huge help. ...Read more
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