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It's my review of ANDRE THE GIANT:Life and Legend by Box Brown.


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So I've been reading this really interesting biography of the Dickinson family by Lyndall Gordon. It's entitled Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds, and it's all so much more convoluted and in some cases tawdry and petty and wild than anything one might imagine being associated with Miss Dickinson ( Read more... )

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Ever notice how difficult it can be to have to talk about yourself ( Read more... )

There are quite a number of biographies of the life of Shakespeare, and even more commentaries on his life and work. I am not saying that these are the best resources for learning about Shakespeare and his work; I am merely saying that these are the ones to which I referred, even though I did not manage to finish all of them. Several of them are ( Read more... )