Tag Archives: Boston
The Global North: Alexander, Boo, Erdrich, Ferry
February 13, 2013 The blizzard this past weekend made me think of Argus, North Dakota. Louise Erdrich’s country. Love Medicine opens with a blizzard: “The snow feel deeper that Easter than it had for forty years, but June walked over … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Comparative literature, Contemporary novel, contemporary poetry, India, Native-American literature, Translation
Tagged Beyond the Beautiful Forevers, Boston, David Ferry, Global North, Goblin Secrets, Katherine Boo, KIng's College London, Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, Minneapolis, Mumbai, National Book Award, North Dakota, Sunil Khilnani, The Beet Queen, William Alexander
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Jane Austen’s Philadelphia, Toni Morrison’s Denver
January 30, 2013 2013 is the bicentennial of Pride and Prejudice, so I’ve been learning new things about Jane Austen — for instance, the fact that her aunt was named Philadelphia, Phila for short. Phila never saw Philadelphia; no, at … Continue reading
Posted in African-American literature, Cities, Classics, collaboration, Contemporary novel, Ethnicity, Race, slavery, Twentieth century literature, Vernacular dialects
Tagged Beloved, Boston, Cincinnati, Denver, East India Company, Jane Austen, Paula Byrne, Philadelphia Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Toni Morrison, Tysoe Saul Hancock
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Edward Weston, Walt Whitman: Grass
November 7, 2012 Whitman, poet of New Jersey and New York. Also poet of grass, the force of demographics, what comes up from the ground. He would have been unsurprised by Hurricane Sandy, or by the rising sea levels … Continue reading
Posted in Atlantic, Autobiography, Cities, Climate change, collaboration, Environmentalism, Modern art, Nineteenth-century literature, oceans, Photography, planet, print medium, Publishers, Remediation, twentieth century art, Vernacular dialects, Visual arts
Tagged Arizona, Boston, Charis Wilson, Edward Weston, Georgia, Hurricane Sandy, Limited Edition Club, Museum of Fine Arts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Paumanok, St. Simon's Island, Walt Whitman, Yaqui
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