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A Scot and the New Yorker

Posted on December 4, 2013 by wcd2

December 4, 2014 A bad cold, and the last week of class — so this is how I’d be remembered by everyone: hoarse, stuffed up, inarticulate, incapable of complex thought. On a whim, I decided to see if there’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in Atlantic, literary magazaines, print medium | Tagged Edinburgh, Eichmann's trial, Florence, Muriel Spark, New Yorker, The Mandelbaum Gate, The Prime of Miss Jane Brodie | Leave a comment

Louise Erdrich, Kurt Vonnegut: Germany’s Wars

Posted on November 21, 2012 by wcd2

November 21, 2012 There is a longer title to Kurt Vonnegut’s famous novel: “Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death, by Kurt Vonnegut, a Fourth-Generation German-American Now Living in Easy Circumstances on Cape Cod [and Smoking Too … Continue reading →

Posted in Atlantic, Cities, Contemporary novel, Ethnicity, French language, German language, mixed races, Native American language, Native-American literature, Race, Vernacular dialects, Wars, World history | Tagged Cape Cod, Chippewa, Dresden Germany, Elbe, fire-bombing, Florence, Georges Clemenceau, Hiroshima, Kurt Vonnegut, Louise Erdrich, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Master Butchers Singing Club, Woodrow Wilson., World War I, World War II | Leave a comment