Word: authorly
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...into several sections, the book continues the discussion of the Stonewall riots with a quick overview of the prohibitions against homosexuality, including punishments and laws associated with such legal and religious condemnation, as well as an investigation into the origins of the term "homosexual" itself. Coined by a Hungarian author, the term was quickly adopted by doctors who, excited by concrete terminology, quickly proceeded to diagnose it as an illness to be treated. At the same time, however, the term could serve as a label, providing a disorganized group of individuals with an identity, a self-definition to gather around...
Since Higginbotham's surgery, students enrolled in the course have attended guest presentations by genealogist author Frank Dorman and an archivist at Harvard Business School's Baker Library...
...author of witty and mysterious curiosities, Cathleen Schine, takes an unexpected, wrong turn to the Galapagos Islands with The Evolution of Jane. The existential questioning of the protagonist, Jane Barlow Schwartz, is based on Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. With the additional layering and listing of the names of famous thinkers such as Freud, Marx and Nietzsche, Schine sets out to prove, as she stated in an interview, that she "is a pseudo-intellectual. And [she's] really good...
...with banality. At one point, underdeveloped character aboard ship Gloria screams, "Blame it one the stars!" Perhaps they are the culprits. But fate aside, Freud, Marx and all of the jargon undermine Schine's witty prose. As Jane's mother tells her daughter, the reader might associate with the author: "You are a girl of conviction. I admire that...
According to Coles, Springsteen heard about the class from a friend in New York. He then contacted Coles because of his specific interest in novelist Walker Percy. Coles says the musician had carried on a correspondence with Percy before the author's death...