I review books as a day job…– Walter Kirn
I review books as a day job, and through the years I’ve come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a saga of victimization,
I review books as a day job, and through the years I’ve come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a saga of victimization,
Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it’ll be too stuffy.
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