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Merry Christmas Introverts – Grab a Book
Introverts have been receiving a lot of attention (ironic, no?) since Susan Cain’s book Quiet: The Power…
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How to Become World Literate
What “world” are we talking about when we talk about “world literature”? We know it when…
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Marlon James, African and Caribbean Women Have Written Some Great “Geek” Books
Right after the publication of his most recent novel A Brief History of Seven Killings (winner…
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Motherhood: A Reading List
Appropriately, a helpful list of books covering the subject of motherhood was published the other day…on my…
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I quit my job once and I want you to know about it
or Some Reflections Provoked by #QuitLit — Six years ago I found myself living in an idyllic…
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what is an ‘invention’ ?
I’m still here, working away at the Bach Two-Part Inventions in a race against the baby…
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Time in Two Parts
“I’ve recently started to finish learning Bach’s Two-Part Inventions.” This awkward sentence nudged itself into some…
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Isidore Okpewho’s Myth in Africa (1983)
Some more Okpewho for you today…no introduction needed… Myth in Africa Isidore Okpewho London: Cambridge, 1983…
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Isidore Okpewho’s The Epic in Africa (1979)
After a fair bit of study during my undergrad and MA (the latter with Harold Scheub who…
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self-imposed leisure reading
Okay, I did it. I wrote a dissertation prospectus and passed the defense, which means that…
Bronwyn Averett 