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Posted on July 17, 2025

The Coincidence of “Curly” in Two American Novels

Something unique happened to me at the end of this past academic year. I taught John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men at the same time I was teaching Jack London’s The Call of the Wild, two novels that seem wildly different at first glance. At some point, while my students and I made our way …

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Posted on November 14, 2024November 22, 2024

Doing Time with Captain Ahab

Moby-Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville was published on November 14, 1851, which makes the book 173 years old. Such a rascal of a novel, to be sure. To celebrate, here’s a quick story. Last year, for Halloween, I spent the night before rustling up a likeness of Captain Ahab. I had given one …

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