Archive for April, 2007

An intercultural exchange

Stephan Clark’s “A Literary Purge,” on teaching English literature and creative writing at a Ukrainian university, opens not with a knock on the door but a call to his mobile phone.

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Borges scholars convene

The University of Iowa’s Borges Center hosts a conference on the Argentinian writer next week. Events are free and open to the public.

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The Gospel writer as editor

“The Synoptic Gospels — Matthew, Mark and Luke — present a conundrum that is probably unique in the annals of literary research.”

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Dallas Cutters Local: My granddad’s union

You might think a man who married thirteen (or so) times wouldn’t have much energy to devote to anything but women, but in the early 1940s my mom’s father (above, left) was founding president of the Dallas Cutters Local Union, part of the Garment Workers’ Union. When my grandmother met her future husband, they both worked for Justin McCarty. She . . .

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