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Tongue-tied and illiterate?
A Moroccan encounter with the ancient Berber alphabet leaves novelist Nicholas Delbanco feeling tongue-tied.
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What goes up
What goes up must come down, states the law of gravity. Nicholas Delbanco asks: Does that apply to literature too?
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A moment's thought?
Most writing that appears seamless likely has been stitched, unstitched, and stitched again.
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A different drum
Visionary, iconoclast, eccentric. What does ‘original’ really mean — and from where does originiality originate?
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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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Time after time
Nicholas Delbanco reflects on a plague confounding artists across the ages: the risk of repetition.
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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.