“I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a […]
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Chapter 42: “The Reivers” by William Faulkner (1963)
“Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you don’t!” Back into the Pulitzer Project and already […]
Chapter 27: “The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters” by Robert Lewis Taylor (1958)
Joshua and I had an idea a little while ago: in 2011, why don’t we pick little challenges for each other—in an effort to prod […]
Chapter 8: “American Pastoral” by Philip Roth (1998)
“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or […]