Since I am a resident of Cliffside Park, New Jersey, this news particularly hits home. Earlier this morning, at around 7:15 a.m., the Cliffside Park...
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
For most families, holidays revolve around tradition. And Thanksgiving is certainly a holiday of tradition, of tradition spanning hundreds of years,...
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So. In case you didn't know... "They f*** you up, your mum and dad." And Philip Larkin's "This Be the Verse" is...
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Literature has loosened its tie in the Twenty-first Century. In fact, the tie has come off completely. And it was a bow tie. The collar has been...
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Poetry is difficult for most because many people read a poem once and leave it at that. But the density of language in poems does not allow for them...
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The short story is a literary form that has been perfected by some of the world's greatest authors, deceased and living: Anton Chekov, Ernest...
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John Updike wrote his fair share of novels. Maybe he didn't publish with the frequency of Joyce Carol Oates, but Updike gave us a lot to choose...
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Philip Roth's thirtieth novel, The Humbling, should be cause for celebration. Thirty is a milestone number whether you're talking about age,...
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Shouldn't teens be reading all the time? Scratch that. Shouldn't everyone? Reading is essential to intellectual development. The more a person...
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In 1963, Maurice Sendak wrote what is now possibly the most beloved children's story of all time: Where The Wild Things Are. And now, in 2009, a film...
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