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Articles with keyword "Literature"

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That's Amore

Three women in novelist William Faulkner’s life affected his storytelling profoundly through their own literary and artistic abilities. Additionally, one of the three transformed his notions of race.

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"Saving Fats"

Permission to write also comes up in Sam Shepard’s latest book, Day out of Days, a collection of short stories that offers one incredible tale told by a friend of Fats Domino’s bodyguard abou

Parents picket the schools in Kanawha County, 1974.

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A Battle over Books

West Virginians battled over their school books in 1974.

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Dante: Auctor, Autore

The question of authority among writers nags us less today than it did in the late Middle Ages, when poets and philosophers began daring to pen their works in the vernacular.

A participant of the Prime Time Family Reading Time program engages with a book.

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Ten Years of Prime Time

Louisiana marks ten successful years of a literacy program.

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Hey, Who You Callin' A Jacobin?

First of all, they are not even French. Second, they’re hardly household names.

Duane W. Roller, professor emeritus of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University

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Impertinent Questions with Duane W. Roller

On the elusive Cleopatra.

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Our Founding Novelist

Charles Brockden Brown mixed spontaneous combustion with Gothic horror.

Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson, Gardener

In her own time she was better known for her hydrangeas.

sepia photograph of Mark Twain standing behind Henry H. Rogers in Bermuda, 1908

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Mark Twain's Latest Autobiography

One hundred years after his death on April 21, 1910, Mark Twain is having one of the busiest years of his afterlife.