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A tour through the history of writing. From David Shields’ 2010 manifesto, “Reality Hunger.” Time for a second look.
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Brian Fawcett learns about the gory details of life on the farm. Ch. 4 of “The Sussex Variations.”
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From the Archives: Twenty years ago, the U.S. invaded Iraq. Here’s what Dooney’s said two decades ago about the American imperial “punitive expedition,” as it rolled across Iraq.
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Brian Fawcett learns about males and females, both human and porcine, on a pig farm in Sussex, England in the early 1960s.
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Vian Andrews hiking and thinking in the Umbrian countryside, amid olive groves in the rain and “sentieri” paths between mountain hamlets.
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Filmmaker and critic Nik Sheehan takes a last-minute tour of the Oscars before the show goes on.
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An International Women’s Day game: who would be on your list? One way to mark IWD: thinking about the women writers we read.
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Brian Fawcett’s “Sussex Variations, or Two Boars,” Ch. 2. People feel distress. So do pigs. Living and learning on an English farm.
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From the Archives: How to keep thinking and acting during and after the Apocalypse. Daniel Gawthrop has some practical suggestions.
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Brian Fawcett, age 18, from northern British Columbia, arrives at his uncle’s and aunt’s pig farm in Sussex, England, and comes-of-age as two 400-pound boars charge into battle.
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