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Tom Sawyer resources

We are a couple of chapters away from finishing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, just in time for the class the oldest boy is taking. The ladies at LitWits have posted resources pages at their site (update: Tom Sawyer booklet not consistently available) and on their Pinterest board. Be sure to check out their other book resources […]

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Upcoming and recent releases, instant viewing, dinosaur rock

Renata Adler’s “Letter from Selma”, about the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, is available at The New Yorker. The real magicians of Latin America looks at Machado de Assis and “the publication by Dalkey Archive Presshttps://dalkeyarchive.store/products/selected-stories?_pos=1&_psq=machado&_ss=e&_v=1.0 [scheduled for March] of a book simply titled Stories, which contains 13 of Machado’s stories, 10 […]

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Recent online reading

I haven’t had much time for browsing this week, so only a couple of articles… The upcoming translation of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis by Susan Bernofsky has been well publicized. Here is an excerpt. And Creative Review has an article on the book’s covers. I missed this when originally published, but I completely agree with […]

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Wait, I did *what* yesterday?

Oh yeah, I signed up for FutureLearn’s course on Shakespeare’s Hamlet: text, performance, and culture. I’ll let you know how it goes. Join in! ABOUT THE COURSE: This course introduces the many ways in which Hamlet can be enjoyed and understood. Six weekly videos discuss the play’s fortunes in print, and its own representations of […]

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Recent online reading

Public Seminar has Andrei Platonov’s short story “Antisexus”, a provisional translation by Anna Kalashyan of an occasional piece by Platonov. In ‘Antisexus’ (1925-26), Platonov writes in a parodic vein about what Béatriz Préciado calls the sex-gender industrial complex. The production of gendered and sexualized bodies via technologies of the image and the orgasm appears here […]