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My Ántonia Read Along: Book II, Chapters 6-10
The girls I knew were always helping to pay for ploughs and reapers, brood-sows, or steers to fatten. One result of this family solidarity was that the…
May 3
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My Ántonia Read Along: Book II, Chapters 1-5
Before I knew Lena, I thought of her as something wild, that always lived on the prairie, because I had never seen her under a roof. Her yellow hair was…
Apr 26
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Recovery Means Reclaiming Your Creative Life
A longform conversation with Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
Apr 23
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My Ántonia Read Along: Book I, Chapters 13-19
Download the full reading schedule here. Years afterward, when the open-grazing days were over, and the red grass had been ploughed under and under…
Apr 19
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My Ántonia Read Along: Book I, Chapters 6-12
Presently Pavel began to talk to Mr. Shimerda, scarcely above a whisper. He was telling a long story, and as he went on, Ántonia took my hand under the…
Apr 12
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My Ántonia Read Along: Intro and Book I, Ch 1-5
I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel…
Apr 5
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Join the Willa Cather Read Along on April 5
A detailed reading schedule and prefatory remarks
Mar 29
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Willa Cather Read Along
And other updates for The Recovering Academic
Mar 15
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Experience More Epiphanies in 2024
The neuroscience of creative awakening. I live in State College, Pennsylvania, which means that nearly every new acquaintance assumes I work for Penn…
Dec 19, 2023
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Behind the Scenes with Kao Kalia Yang
Watch now (50 mins) | Two powerful moments in Where Rivers Part
Nov 10, 2023
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I Could Feel the Beating Heart of My Mother
Kao Kalia Yang's forthcoming memoir, Where Rivers Part
Nov 7, 2023
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Phillis Wheatley: An American Genius
Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped in Africa, brought to New England on a slave ship, and purchased by a wealthy Boston family in 1761. She had just lost…
Oct 24, 2023
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