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Jack London’s many sides emerge in James L. Haley’s Wolf.

August 15, 2010
By W.C. Pikey
Jack London’s many sides emerge in James L. Haley’s Wolf.

The United States has a startling ability to take its most angry, edgy radicals and turn them into cuddly eunuchs. The process begins the moment they die. Mark Twain is remembered as a quipster forever floating down the Mississippi River at sunset, while his polemics against the violent birth of the American empire lie...
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Nabokov’s The Original of Laura (Dying Is Fun).

November 10, 2009
By W.C. Pikey
Nabokov’s The Original of Laura (Dying Is Fun).

Back when I was a young viewer of Sarajevo TV, there was a cult show along the lines of Monty Python that once featured a skit with a poem presumably found in the papers of a deceased genius poet. An actor ponderously declaimed the newly discovered verse—"Bread/ Milk /Cooking oil …"—as it became clear...
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