1. I’ll begin with the most unpleasant. I’m reading Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives & Tender Buttons for my 20th Century American Fiction class. I HATE GERTRUDE STEIN! There…had to get that out once more. Why? you may ask (but only if you’ve never read her…). Well, let me tell you:
a) All telling, no showing. Dry [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Into the Wild’
16 Feb
Three Things
13 Feb
Into the Wild
“In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters.”
–from author’s note, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
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“If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t [...]
