The Wake Up Call –
22 February 2013
The Wake Up Call –
Like the smell of strong coffee wafting down the hall, we offer a few book-related thoughts and stories to jumpstart your day…
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“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.”- Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, Born on this Day 1892
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Get [easyazon-link asin=”B0083Z6A4O” locale=”us”]Renascence and Other Poems[/easyazon-link] by Millay – FREE for Kindle!
Today is the birthday of literary critic Terry Eagleton, born 1943…Read our recent review of Eagleton’s book The Event of Literature.
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Book News:
- Image Journal: U2, “upper middlebrow” tastes, and what we give up in the pursuit of cool.
- New York Times: The Essay: An Exercise in Doubt.
- LA Review of Books: On The Pope’s Radical decision to resign.
Thanks be to God for this new day, may it be full of beauty and grace!
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C. Christopher Smith is the founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books. He is also author of a number of books, including most recently How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church (Brazos Press, 2019). Connect with him online at: C-Christopher-Smith.com
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