Word: readerly
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...catch much at auction due to wear and tear.But that’s not really the point. Private collections might be this comprehensive, but this collection is one that’s open to any Harvard student, free of charge. “It’s a reader thing!” Talbot says. “You know, it’s good that kids can just come in here and plow through this stuff.”While no one is quite sure how the comic collection got to Quincy, what seems clear is that...
...becomes a powerful tool; her thoughts, stripped of the context or fictitious garnish that would mask them in a short story, become uncompromisingly honest.Although simplicity is a key component of the volume, Paley is still a very technically competent poet. The poems have no commas or periods, giving the reader the sense that the collection represents Paley’s internal monologue, a continued sequence of thought without any punctuation except the occasional pause. Great care has been taken with the pauses, as well: Paley uses line breaks and spaces within the lines to create varied silences and to modulate...
...previous memoir “Paula.” Allende warned the audience beforehand that the book had “nothing spiritual or profound in it. It’s just gossip.” The sell-out audience, filled with both dedicated fans and new readers, responded enthusiastically, frequently interrupting her Spanish-accented speech with appreciative laughter. Allende read three chapters from her book. In “Searching for a Bride,” she described her struggles and accomplishments as a matchmaker for her son Nico. In “Ballroom Dancing and Chocolate...
...still not over that loss to the Warriors, and probably never will be” and that I “can no longer rationalize that Mark Cuban is a positive influence.” But those are the only assumptions Leitch makes about his reader that apply to me. Too much of the book is written for your twenty-something sports bar regular who thinks his love of sports is a reflection of his masculinity. While this is the stereotypical picture of a sports fan, we all know that it is actually only a small subsection of the millions...
...musical form; artists such as Sugarhill Gang, Run-D.M.C., 2Pac, and DMX have replaced Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan as the new prophets of black anger and frustration, the definers of racial identity, and the proponents for social and political change.Reeves provides a systematic chronicle that takes the reader from hip-hop’s origins its current manifestations. He charts how DJs’ isolation of the breakbeat at huge New York block parties in the late 1970s evolved into the musical form that burst into popular consciousness with the Sugarhill Gang and Run-D.M.C. He analyzes...