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May.06.2013
Red Room "Create Your Own Book Awards" Creative Blog Challenge
Felicity & Barbara Pym Receives the Royal English Literature Award!
It gives me great pleasure to announce to you that the Royal English Literature Award for the most impeccable Mandatory English Literature Text for 2012 is to be...
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Feb.15.2012
"Reading Harrison Solow’s book, Felicity & Barbara Pym has brought me to a personally disturbing realization: I have become a lazy reader.
I loved being an English major. I loved the hours of reading, the piecing together of analytical puzzles, the solving of previously unseen riddles......
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Nov.04.2011
“I Wish You to Read Literature” (Page 26)
Felicity & Barbara Pym by Harrison Solow
Dear Red Room,
I’m certainly happy that this is not a book review because it is something that I’m not quite academically prepared to do at this time. However, I am only too happy to...
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Oct.10.2011
Harrison Solow's blog [Coming of Age] constitutes gems of wisdom to be treasured and shared. Especially given her literary accomplishments and status/renown, it's reassuring and refreshing, indeed, to learn of her unusual self-awareness and recognition of the positive impact of religious...
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Jun.27.2011
“Last night I came across something in my journal from a few years ago and although it is, as these things often are, a mere stream of consciousness, I thought it had some relevance to our current discussion. I’ll write it here and say nothing else about it, so here it is:
I have to turn everything...
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Jun.15.2011
The letters that writers write to one another are at least as interesting than the books or stories they write. This is one reason among many for my interest in the epistolary as form. Between my friends and me, the epistolary thrives. Not Literature – but an involvement with it – an immersion in...
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Dec.05.2010
When I was reading for a Master's Degree at Mills College many years ago, one of my Literature Courses was in Anita Brookner. I was an independent scholar after the first year, since I had moved from the Bay Area to Malibu, and therefore continued my studies with several professors, meeting once a...
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Oct.22.2010
Even today's best literary studies rarely possess what those in the book trade call "crossover potential"-that is, any appeal for the average intelligent reader who resides outside the ivory tower. Harrison Solow's Felicity & Barbara Pym, recently published by Cinnamon Press, is a happy...
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Oct.19.2010
From the Publishers Weekly Starred Review. "The 33rd Pushcart anthology demonstrates that independent presses still publish much of the world's most engaging literature. In her AGNI essay, Bendithion, Harrison Solow considers the enigmatic otherworldliness of the world-class tenor and Welsh...
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Oct.04.2010
Here is the podcast of the October 2nd Interview I gave at CIUT Radio in Toronto:
http://tinyurl.com/2bw8ost
There is a little music and a few sponsor messages before the interview begins.
~ Harrison
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