jeffery mcnary's Writings
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Essay
Sep.30.2011
What Happens when a Leftist Philosopher Discovers God? Peter Berger
Society is the social science journal superbly edited by Jonathan Imber. In its fall issue it carries an article by Philippe Portier (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris), entitled “Religion and Democracy in the Thought of Juergen Habermas”. Coincidentally, in a recent issue of the...
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Article
Jul.17.2011
IN THESE TIMES
Monday, July 11, 2011Civil Liberties Abuses in the Age of Obama (7:04 am)
On July 1, blogger and constitutional law expert Glenn Greenwald delivered a talk at the Socialism 2011 Conference in Chicago called “Civil Liberties Under Obama.” I have summarized his talk below as well as added links to some of his previous writings on the same subjects and other...
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Jul.12.2011
Oct 1st and 2nd IBYM, Asbury Park, NJ - please CLICK HERE for tickets.
Oct 15th Mexico, Corona Festival - please CLICK HERE for tickets.
4th Oct 2011Hammerstein Ballroom NYC NY5th Oct 2011Hammerstein Ballroom NYC NY7th Oct 2011Quai Jacques Cartier Montreal QC CANADA9th Oct 2011The Sound Academy Toronto CANADA10th Oct 2011The Sound Academy Toronto CANADA12th Oct...
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Jul.03.2011
HARVARD ATHLETICS
July 3, 2011
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4
HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England—The Harvard heavyweight four defeated Oxford Brookes University to win the Prince Albert Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta while Radcliffe alumnae contributed to a pair of Henley wins Sunday on the River Thames.
For the second straight day, the Crimson four trailed through the Barrier...
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Column
Jul.02.2011
boston globe
By Renée Loth
July 2, 2011
THE ICONIC status of the “Twenty-five Books That Shaped America,’’ a new collection of essays by Thomas C. Foster, is evident in his subtitle: “How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity.’’
Like Dylan or Madonna, “Moby Dick’’ and “The Great Gatsby’’ need only a hint to be instantly recognizable to...
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Article
Jul.01.2011
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
June 22, 2011Virginia Woolf’s late essaysWoolf's essays from the Thirties - ‘engaged, playful, exacting, pugnacious’ – have received the sort of scholarly editing she admiredTrev Broughton
Leslie Stephen was in his forties, with a decade of literary reviewing behind him, when the publication of Hours in a Library (1874–9) consolidated his unsigned essays and his...
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Jun.24.2011
Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950, the daughter of a journalist and a sculptor. She was raised in Rome, Italy and educated in French schools. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris before attending New York University as an undergraduate, where shestudied filmmaking. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa.
Graham is the...
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Jun.24.2011
Robert Pinsky is the author of six books of poetry: Jersey Rain (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000); The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 (1996), which won the 1997 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize nominee; The Want Bone (1990); History of My Heart (1984); An Explanation of America (1980); and Sadness and Happiness (1975). In...
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Jun.22.2011
GUERNICA
The Story of the Story of Oby Carmela Ciuraru June 2011
The Story of O shocked readers worldwide with its sadomasochistic love affair written in a style “too direct, too cool, to be that of a woman.” Carmela Ciuraru examines the life of O's author.
Photograph via Flickr by Vectorportal
Not many authors can boast of having written a best-selling pornographic novel...
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Jun.20.2011
washington post
Posted at 09:33 AM ET, 06/20/2011 Dept. of unintended consequences: Jon Huntsman editionBy Ezra Klein
When the Obama administration named Jon Huntsman ambassador to China, it was seen by most as a political coup: The administration managed to look bipartisan while achieving a very politician objective; taking a potential challenger off of the board. And perhaps...
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About jeffery
Jeffery McNary grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and after a career in public service, turned to journalism and writing. His work can be found in Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The Vineyard Gazette, the Boston Phoenix, Transition Magazine, Neotericart, NewCity, and...
Causes jeffery mcnary Supports
Better Government Association
jeffery’s Favorite Books
Didion's "The White Album", "The Long Affair" by Connor Cruise O'Brien, "Havana's in Camelot" by William Styron, Yourcenar's, "Hadrian", "King of the Cats" by...