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Post by hchoops on Aug 17, 2020 19:14:33 GMT -5
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Post by rgs318 on Aug 18, 2020 7:23:48 GMT -5
Well put! I still have a signed edition of his History of Holy Cross. I wanted to get into his seminar on US foreign policy but I could not. I went to him and asked is he might have room for just one more (#13) since I was planning to teach history and the course could be very important to me in the future. After a one on one meeting, I ended up in the course (dropping American Intellectual History to do so). I. modeled. much of my teaching g on his example.
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Post by lou on Dec 1, 2020 14:26:13 GMT -5
Today in The New Yorker...The best books we read in 2020.
The Known World
"This was the work of a genius"
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Post by newfieguy74 on Dec 1, 2020 14:49:12 GMT -5
I'm currently reading his book of short stories--Lost in the City. It's amazing. BTW, Jones dedicates The Known World to his mother "who could have done much more in a better world." Pretty heartbreaking. I agree about The Known World--it is a work of genius.
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Post by lou on Dec 1, 2020 15:52:29 GMT -5
I'm currently reading his book of short stories--Lost in the City. It's amazing. BTW, Jones dedicates The Known World to his mother "who could have done much more in a better world." Pretty heartbreaking. I agree about The Known World--it is a work of genius. From the same article After reading, I immediately picked up Jones’s other two books, both story collections, and raced through the more recent one, “All Aunt Hagar’s Children.” I didn’t think it was possible for me to like a book as much as “The Known World,” but I began to think that I liked these stories even more. Now, the other collection, “Lost in the City,” is on my bedside table—a down payment on my next escape. —Jonathan Blitzer
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