Stephen King
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The Boys of Summer: Holidays in Much Ado About Nothing
As a student, are you / were you ever bored during the summer holidays? If you’re planning a holiday, how long would be ‘too long’? What, then, IS a holiday?
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24.07 Madeline Miller
‘Who wants to live forever?’, as Queen sang in 1986. On her birthday, let’s explore that idea through Madeline MIller’s retellings (with a little help from Tennyson, Edna St Vincent Millay, and Stephen King).
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The Lodger, by Marie Belloc Lowndes (1913)
in MarginaliaHow much should suspicion cost? What compromises become acceptable when poverty is waiting just outside the front door? Is to permit to promote?
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07.07 Jeff VanderMeer
Weird Fiction isn’t about impossible worlds. Perhaps it’s about discovering that we’ve been looking at the possible one through only a narrow slice of the spectrum.
