Reveries of Disillusionment
…When he was six years old, God told him he would live a life of pain and horror. Kerouac was a rollercoaster of a multiplicity of men: The King of the Beats! The Catholic School Boy…The Sensitive...
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Often hailed as the most influential American thinker of the 19th century, Ralph Waldo Emerson was, without a doubt, a polarizing figure. The first propagator of Transcendentalist theory,...
View ArticleProfiling Greatness
Walter Isaacson has now penned four illustrious biographies, authored another on great thinkers throughout America’s rich history and co-authored yet another, which covers six pivotal...
View ArticleTo Read or Not to Read. That is the Question?
Television was first commercialized in the U.S. in the 1950s. Back then, Americans were enjoying a relative golden era of the country’s history. Americans were riding the post-World War II economic...
View ArticleWaiting for Godot
An Irish man writes a play in French about two men who spend days waiting for someone who never comes. A plot that sounds rather uninteresting on the surface turns out to be anything but. Samuel...
View ArticleHemingway
Hemingway is known for terse prose. He invites an inherent likability by refreshing his readers, many of whom are generally used to more flowery, banal or pedantic writing styles. What he lacks in...
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