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Date Archives → July 2010

DIY MFA Reading List: “The Sportswriter” by Richard Ford

posted in Blog on July 24, 2010 by David Eric Tomlinson 2 Comments

No man is an island. Except for possibly Frank Bascombe, Richard Ford’s uniquely American dreamer, drifting absently through an unexamined life in the New Jersey suburbs.

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DIY MFA Reading List: “The Intuitionist” by Colson Whitehead

posted in Blog on July 16, 2010 by David Eric Tomlinson 1 Comment

Lila Mae Watson is a black woman trying to move up in a world that keeps trying to push her back down. But she’s not having any of it in Colson Whitehead’s “The Intuitionist”.

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