May 2012
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It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in...
– A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Into the Woods →
mysteryatbbd:
Honored to feature this powerful post by William Landay, author of Defending Jacob:
Does it help to see where a novel is set? Would you understand Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County any better if you actually visited his Mississippi? Is it even possible to understand Dickens if you have no idea what Victorian London looked like?…
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Simon Callow on Dickens’ London.