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Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov

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Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an...

Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

Lloyd Pratt

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American historians have typically argued that a shared experience of time worked to bind the...

Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated My All American (2015) in Movies

Aug 3, 2020

My All American is based on a true story of a college football hopeful turned standout who is faced with a life altering diagnosis that will change the lives of everyone around him forever.

Very strong performance by both Aaron Eckhart and Finn Whitrock (fun fact: this is the first movie that I ever saw that Finn starred in.)

I'm a sucker for a true story, especially when it involves sports. If you are, you should definitely put this film on your list.

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Junot Diaz and the Decolonial Imagination

Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas and Jose David Saldivar

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The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz, this...

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Ruth Franklin

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Instantly heralded for its "masterful" and "thrilling" portrayal (Boston Globe), Shirley Jackson...

Jcadden76 (64 KP) rated This American Life in Podcasts

Jun 12, 2018

This American Life

Society & Culture

7.9

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Storytelling at its best!

From the variety of topics to the weight of some of the stories, there is something about the way that This American Life blends a narrative and touches on the lives of the people that the stories are about. I love the fact that even if I don't think that I am that into the topic that all of a sudden I am transported into the life and the situation. All of a sudden I am part of the story.

Again, storytelling at its best.