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Reading for Pleasure? Wednesday: Arturo Pérez Reverte
I am told that La Reina del Sur is a good novel but I find it artificial and rather stressful so far. There is a movie of it which could be better, and there is a corrido of it by Los Tigres del Norte… more →
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Reading for Pleasure? Wednesday: Arturo Pérez Reverte
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profacero wrote 2 weeks ago: I am told that La Reina del Sur is a good novel but I find it artificial and rather stressful so far … more →
Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Mercè Rodoreda
profacero wrote 1 month ago: Any time is a good time to read Mercè Rodoreda. The Nation’s review article on her is worth re … more →
Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Klaus Brandl
profacero wrote 1 month ago: Communicative Language Teaching in Action explains a great deal about what is now happening. It is n … more →
For August 29: The 'I' of the Storm
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profacero wrote 2 months ago: On August 27, 2005, I talked to all my New Orleans people, and on August 28 they came here. Some sta … more →
Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Isis the Scientist
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profacero wrote 4 months ago: A fabulous post on the limits and pitfalls of “civil discourse.” Via Historiann. Axé. … more →
For St. George's Day: Friedrich Nietzche
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profacero wrote 5 months ago: From the Geneaology of Morals: The “well-born” simply felt themselves the “happy … more →
Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Tennessee Williams
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profacero wrote 7 months ago: A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is brilliant, and better than the play or the movie. Williams’ introdu … more →
Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: 15 Books Meme
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profacero wrote 7 months ago: In this self-tagging meme, which I invented before discovering that others had already done so, you … more →
Renato Ortiz
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profacero wrote 7 months ago: I am in New Orleans and cannot concentrate on this blog because the city is so magical. New Orleans … more →
The SPLASH Awards
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profacero wrote 7 months ago: The Splash Award The Anxious Black Woman has given me a Splash Award. I am honored to be included am … more →
Global Whiteness
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profacero wrote 8 months ago: Some time ago I taught the novel I am studying now. Its characters are classified by color according … more →
Not Last Night, But the Night Before [so to speak]...
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profacero wrote 8 months ago: …I was tagged by Geoffrey Philp for the 25 writers meme, in which you name 25 writers who have … more →
Reading For Pleasure Wednesday (late): Karel Čapek
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profacero wrote 9 months ago: The avant-garde rules! I read R.U.R., Čapek’s 1921 play, and it is brilliant. You can read it … more →
Henry Miller
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profacero wrote 9 months ago: 1. Work on one thing at a time until finished. 2. Start no more new books, add no more new material … more →
Rue Royale
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profacero wrote 10 months ago: The days are noticeably longer. I need Mardi Gras presents, and it is a whole day’s trip to go … more →
Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Ned Sublette, John Pizer, and the Princeton Review
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profacero wrote 10 months ago: The World That Made New Orleans both delights and instructs. So does John Pizer’s The Idea of … more →
Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Neil Postman. A Book of Anti-Pleasure: The Velveteen Rabbit
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profacero wrote 11 months ago: In this post we will discuss Neil Postman, whom I did read for pleasure, but first we will mention m … more →
Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: The NYT on Teaching
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profacero wrote 1 year ago: Sunday’s NYT Magazine had a number of essays on higher education and university level teaching … more →
Crème Fraîche
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profacero wrote 1 year ago: I thought crème fraîche only grew in France – i.e. that it was hard to make and only French da … more →
