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December 14, 2020

Vivian Gornick’s Elegy for the Novel?

Karen Swallow Prior

A review of Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader, Vivian Gornick, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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September 3, 2019

Why We Need to Read

Karen Swallow Prior

Reading, according to Karen Prior, forms one’s character, cultivates virtues such as patience, attentiveness, diligence, and humility, and leads to greater academic and professional success. Why......

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