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Earlier this year, novelist Jane Smiley contributed an entertaining and provocative piece to Big Think’s “How to Think Like Shakespeare” series. In it she wrote that while composing A Thousand Acres, her 1991 Pulitzer winner, she caught a glimpse into the mind of Shakespeare—and found it less ... Read More
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Writing in The New Yorker's Book Bench this week, Macy Halford has curated a selection of "Six Shorts to Read During a Hurricane." The novels, essays, and poems excerpted include Rimbaud's "The Drunken Boat" and an amazing prose passage from Sylvia Plath, which in true Plathian style calls the New ... Read More
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