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A lesson learned
Opinions are like mentors, says Nicholas Delbanco. We all have them. Some are more agreeable than others.
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Shop around the corner
Novelist Nicholas Delbanco pens an ode to readers’ pulp-and-paper Shangri-La: the bookstore.
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What we keep, what we give away
Nicholas Delbanco packs up his personal library and opens the chapter to a new era in life.
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An uncommon education: Ep 4
In “A Writer Worth Reading,” Detroit Public Television partners with U-M historians to explore the University’s commitment to “the new, the unusual, and the radical.”
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It's only words
Nicholas Delbanco illustrates how language that once seemed transgressive is now quite routine.
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The quick brown fox
Novelist Nicholas Delbanco examines our changing language, letter by letter.
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Echo & association
Novelist Nicholas Delbanco reminds us that ‘good writers borrow, great writers steal.’
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'A new shadow on the earth'
“The idea that every phrase should and must be scrutinized is central to democracy,” says novelist Nicholas Delbanco.