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Two of these essays (‘‘Recalling Niels Bohr’’ and ‘‘Lonesome, With Snails’’) revolve around jokes — a favorite subject of Dillard’s. 1.000

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Simplified: Two of Annie Dillard's essays, 'Recalling Niels Bohr' and 'Lonesome, With Snails', are about jokes.

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In ‘‘An American Childhood,’’ her classic memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh, Dillard describes life with her parents as a long and rigorous apprenticeship of wisecracking. 1.000

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Simplified: Annie Dillard's memoir 'An American Childhood' is about her growing up in Pittsburgh.

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One of these essays ends, out of nowhere, with a brief but bold artistic manifesto. ‘‘Possible books abound; I’d rather write an impossible page.’’ 1.000

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Simplified: One of Annie Dillard's essays published in the magazine ends with the line, 'Possible books abound; I’d rather write an impossible page.'

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‘‘Tickets for a Prayer Wheel,’’ a small collection of poems, was followed immediately by ‘‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’’ a long nonfictional account of her experience embedding, Thoreau-style, for a year... 1.000

👤 Sam Anderson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Publishing , Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Annie Dillard's book of poems 'Tickets for a Prayer Wheel' was followed by her nonfiction book 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek'.

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Three early and unpublished works by the author of “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.” 1.000

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Simplified: Fact: Annie Dillard, author of 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek', has three early, unpublished works.

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This month, she publishes ‘‘The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New,’’ a collection of pieces that spans her entire variegated career. 1.000

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Simplified: Annie Dillard published 'The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New' in March 2016.

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Dillard began publishing books in 1974. 1.000

👤 Sam Anderson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Publishing , Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Annie Dillard began publishing books in 1974.

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Morrison is up there for good reason. 1.000

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Simplified: Morrison is up there for good reason

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7 months ago
Knopf has just published, with notes and an introduction by the literary scholar and Princeton professor Claudia Brodsky, a new collection of Morrison’s lectures on the great books: “Language as Liber... 1.000

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Simplified: Knopf published a new collection of Morrison’s lectures titled “Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon” with notes and an introduct...

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7 months ago
Langston Hughes titled his second autobiography “I Wonder as I Wander” (1956), and that describes me to a T. 1.000

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Simplified: Langston Hughes titled his second autobiography “I Wonder as I Wander” (1956).

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7 months ago
I’m working with the six chapters in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” (1818) that are narrated by the so-called creature. 1.000

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Simplified: The author is working with six chapters in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” (1818) narrated by the creature.

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7 months ago
Pelicot's new memoir, “A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides,” will be published on Feb. 17. 1.000

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Simplified: Pelicot's memoir “A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides” will be published on Feb 17.

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7 months ago
On February 1, 1862, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” 1.000

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Simplified: Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” on February 1 1862

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On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the… 1.000

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Simplified: Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” on February 1 1862

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7 months ago
He writes about the generation after Fitzgerald's with even more freedom of speech than Hemingway has permitted himself. 0.800

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Simplified: O'Hara writes about the generation after Fitzgerald's with more freedom of speech than Hemingway

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7 months ago
BUTTERFIELD 8. By John O'Hara. 310 pp. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. $2.50. 1.000

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Simplified: Butterfield 8 is a novel by John O'Hara with 310 pages published by Harcourt Brace & Co in New York for $2.50

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7 months ago
JOHN O'HARA'S pedigree as a writer might be set down as approximately by Ernest Hemingway out of Scott Fitzgerald. 0.800

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Simplified: John O'Hara's writing pedigree is approximately by Ernest Hemingway out of Scott Fitzgerald

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7 months ago
Mr. Fetterman wrote in his book, describing himself as “more immediate and sometimes prickly.” 0.900

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Simplified: Mr Fetterman described himself as more immediate and sometimes prickly in his book

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8 months ago
Mr. Shapiro name-checks the senator twice in his newly released book. 0.900

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Simplified: Mr Shapiro name-checks the senator twice in his newly released book

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8 months ago
Her father instead returns with an enigmatic stray, a “dirty, ragged, black-haired child.” 0.900

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Simplified: Her father instead returns with an enigmatic stray a dirty ragged black-haired child

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