Archive for June, 2007



Mississippi road trip and Faulkner pilgrimage

Later this month my beloved aunt and I are taking a road trip from Nashville, Tennessee, to Oxford, Mississippi, with quick stops in Memphis, Greenwood, and Drew. We’ll be catching up and visiting family and drinking sweet tea, and she’ll take me back to all the familial landmarks. I spent lots of time on the Mississippi Gulf Coast as a . . .

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When dedications go wrong

Charlotte Brontë dedicated Jane Eyre to Thackeray without realizing he, like Mr Rochester, “was married to a woman who had gone insane.” Scandal ensued.

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