Mixed Feelings: Happy Wife, Happy Life
Ending a relationship is hard, but it’s not as hard as quitting an institution. And the thing we often forget about marriage is that it is an institution.
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Posts Tagged: Victorian era
Are Books Getting Dumber Because We Want Them To?
Over at Bloomberg View, Stephen L. Carter examines the Amazon of the Victorian era, a book distributor named Charles Edward Mudie, and how readers are really to blame for literary fiction’s struggle to find a readership. Carter writes about Mudie in response to Ursula K. Le Guin’s post at Book View Cafe arguing that Amazon […]
...moreVictorian Hair Art’s Literary Legacy
The Ploughshares blog looks at Victorian hair art and the way it was woven into classics such as Wuthering Heights, Anne of Green Gables, and Little Women.
...moreMourning the Book
I expected to feel a sense of accomplishment when I finished Wallace Stegner’s “Angle of Repose,” but instead I felt lost, grief-stricken. It was a mixture of sadness for the main character and a fear that I might yet ruin my own life—but mostly I wanted to be back in the middle of that book.
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