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Taking a certain elm-shaded street in a small Middle Western town—a street whose houses appear …
He would certainly have been a preacher if he had been born fifty years earlier. [In contrast,] Mr. Potter had had all the justice and impartiality he could stand in his boyhood. He had more than once been tied to the stake and burned alive in his father’s righteous wrath.
— Time Will Darken It by William Maxwell (Page 65 - 66)
Taking a certain elm-shaded street in a small Middle Western town—a street whose houses appear …
Though he knew he had already said too much, he said one thing more: ‘I’m sorry you had such a difficult morning.’ But it was no use. She was already far, far out of his reach.
— Time Will Darken It by William Maxwell (Page 56)
The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. From blonde to ginger, …
When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods …
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe …
A young man from a small provincial town—a man without independent wealth, without powerful family connections, and without a university …
A critical approach to interactive fiction, as literature and game.
Interactive fiction—the best-known form of which is the text game …
From the acclaimed author of Dreaming in Cuban, a follow-up novel that tracks four generations of the del Pino …
Set in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, a sweeping saga of tradition, culture, family, history, and connection that unfolds through the lives of …
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests
After years of biopsies, best-selling author Sarah Thornton …
Since a winter morning in 1971 when a teacher wheeled a teletype into his classroom to debut a game about …
Games and other playable forms, from interactive fictions to improvisational theater, involve role playing and story—something played and something told. …
The distinctive typography and elegant compositions designed by William Joseph “Dard” Hunter (American, 1883-1966) have become icons of the American …
Jesus came preaching, but the church wound up preaching Jesus. Why does the church insist upon making Jesus the object …
Taking a certain elm-shaded street in a small Middle Western town—a street whose houses appear …
Something like a great pane of glass, opaque from one side, transparent from the other, divided the two halves of Elm Street. [One half] knew a great deal about what went on in the comfortable houses on the hill. But when they or any of their friends and neighbors passed under the arc light at the intersection, the comfortable part of Elm Street lost all contact with them.
— Time Will Darken It by William Maxwell (Page 36)
That other half is a “down-at-the-heel neighborhood [of] a few white families and most of the Negroes of Draperville.”
