Translations Under a Mango Tree
I first read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” in the novel’s original Spanish. Marquez’s rhetoric transported me into a world that I didn’t suspect I would ever …
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I first read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” in the novel’s original Spanish. Marquez’s rhetoric transported me into a world that I didn’t suspect I would ever …
Read MoreI am so happy that this week is over. Rarely would I refer to myself as ecstatic, but I’m there. And I’m banking on the fact that you’re pretty happy …
Read More“I Was a Teenage Illiterate,” is the title of the New York Times article by Cathleen Shine my father emailed me earlier this week. “Seriously, Dad?” was my initial reaction …
Read MoreYesterday I was officially initiated into the society of the Baker Street Irregulars. It wasn’t actually an official induction—I would probably have to be in London for that to occur, …
Read MoreYou know how there’s always this one person or event, or this one incident that once you’ve encountered, you are never able to liberate yourself from? This thing, person, or …
Read MoreTo Whom It May Concern (yes, you, tragically cool, intolerably fashionable, higher-educated young adult): vintage is in. But of course you knew that. Everyone knew that. Which is probably why …
Read MoreOn a recent episode of the popular television show “How I Met Your Mother,” the protagonist, Ted Mosby, laments on the perils of the dating life. He says, “When you …
Read MoreYou might have noticed that this week is “Doppelgänger Week” on Facebook. And if you didn’t know, then either some of your friends have incredibly similar looking celebrity twins or …
Read MoreMy life is boring. There is no other way to spin it. I almost never go to bed after 10PM and I like to wake up at 6AM to watch …
Read MoreThus far in my blogging career, with one post under my technological belt, I have discovered that blogging is quite a therapeutic activity. Ironically, the manner in which my catharsis …
Read MoreThe Poe Toaster is nevermore. For the first time in 60 years, the mysterious cloaked man known as the “Poe Toaster” did not leave roses and a bottle of Cognac …
Read MoreI am an English major. I am also a particularly slow reader. If you consider these two statements somewhat contradictory, you are certainly not the only one. The first time …
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