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		<title>A Review of Christian Wiman&#8217;s Spiritual Autobiography</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/30/a-review-of-christian-wimans-spiritual-autobiography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his review of Christian Wiman&#8217;s spiritual autobiography, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer, Jay Parini discusses Wiman&#8217;s emphasis on the importance of faith to a critic. Here is an extract: It strikes me that criticism—systemic reflection on texts, even on life itself—has lost its urgency during the past 30 years or more, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Oddly Modern Antiquarian Bookshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an intriguing article for the New York Times, Jody Rosen discusses a fascinating but little-known bookstore called Monkey&#8217;s Paw, and gives ideas on how such businesses fit into today&#8217;s literary world. Here is an extract: “Life-Spark Stories for the Intelligent Young.” Attributed to the author “R. K.,” it tells the story of a “bright [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Dickens met Dostoevsky</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/18/when-dickens-met-dostoevsky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relating to the studies of CC202 is an article by Eric Naiman discussing a supposed encounter between Dostoevsky and Dickens. Here is an extract: I have been teaching courses on Dostoevsky for over two decades, but I had never come across any mention of this encounter. Although Dostoevsky is known to have visited London for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zachary Bos on Robert Bringhurst</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/25/zachary-bos-on-robert-bringhurst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Administrative Coordinator of the Core, Zachary Bos, recently wrote a letter to the Boston Finneganers regarding Robert Bringhurst&#8217;s books: Dear Friends, and members of the Boston Finneganers: I have a great deal of appreciation for Robert Bringhurst&#8217;s books &#8211; his interest and valuation of languages, literatures, and the technical means these comes to us; his sense of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>André Alexis: Why Read?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/04/andre-alexis-why-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The essay discusses David Shields&#8217; novel How Literature Saved My Life, and how its ideas truly relate to many aspects of existence. Here is an extract: One of the other things literature does is that it keeps the plates in the air, so to speak. Much thinking, in the humanities, has shifted from the answer-oriented [...]]]></description>
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