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What's Parker Reading?!?: Contest Winner!! Next time it could be you!
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Monday, November 8, 2010. Next time it could be you! Hey citizens of the blog-0-sphere! This is Alexis Lopez, she's the first every What's Parker Reading Contest winner. She won a beautiful copy of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. If you're wondering why you didn't win it or why you didn't even know about the contest, it's probably because you haven't been reading the blog faithfully enough! November 9, 2010 at 5:50 AM. November 11, 2010 at 1:10 PM. The Conquistador of Chaos. November 16, 2010 at 11:19 AM.
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What's Parker Reading?!?: If you were expecting a poem of the week you can go sit on a Pnin!
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Monday, November 15, 2010. If you were expecting a poem of the week you can go sit on a Pnin! As I'm sure you've already heard by now from several friends and the news media, I failed to post a poem of the week this week. I've decided that instead of trying to play catch-up I'd build up my poetry power for next week. Besides I have a great novel I want to talk about, Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin. You might know Nabakov for his supposedly scandalous masterpiece Lolita. Ideally bald, sun-tanned, and clean-shave...
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What's Parker Reading?!?: November 2010
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Monday, November 15, 2010. If you were expecting a poem of the week you can go sit on a Pnin! As I'm sure you've already heard by now from several friends and the news media, I failed to post a poem of the week this week. I've decided that instead of trying to play catch-up I'd build up my poetry power for next week. Besides I have a great novel I want to talk about, Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin. You might know Nabakov for his supposedly scandalous masterpiece Lolita. Ideally bald, sun-tanned, and clean-shave...
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What's Parker Reading?!?: A hearty poem of the week by Thomas Hardy...There's gotta be a better Thomas Hardy pun....
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Sunday, November 7, 2010. A hearty poem of the week by Thomas Hardy.There's gotta be a better Thomas Hardy pun. During Wind and Rain by Thomas Hardy. They sing their dearest songs-. He, she, all of them - yea,. Treble and tenor and bass,. And one to play;. With the candles mooning each face. Ah, no; the years O! How the sick leaves reel down in throngs! They clear the creeping moss-. Elders and juniors - aye,. Making the pathways neat. And the garden gay;. And they build a shady seat. Ah, no; the years O!
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What's Parker Reading?!?: October 2010
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010. The Top 7 First Sentences of All Time! A few days ago I was perusing around in the bookstore, pretending - quite convincingly in my opinion - that there was no such thing as homework and that I actually needed a novel to read. I did such a good job convincing myself of this that I made the mistake of picking up Orhan Pamuk's "My Name Is Red." This is the first sentence of that book:. I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.". Let the count down begin!
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What's Parker Reading?!?: Stories by George!
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Saturday, March 2, 2013. George Saunders has been getting some pretty serious (or at least seriously public) cred for his latest short story collection, Tenth of December. I say information age expecting and probably deserving some eye rolls, but I think it’s a good way to contextualize Saunders’ unique style. Take the opening lines from “Exhortation:” “I would not like to characterize this as a plea, although it may start to sound like one (! These details emphasize what might be Saunders’ main fo...
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What's Parker Reading?!?: New Poem of the Week that is three days late but still pretty good if you give it a chance!
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010. New Poem of the Week that is three days late but still pretty good if you give it a chance! Letter to N.Y. By Elizabeth Bishop. In your next letter I wish you'd say. Where you are going and what you are doing;. How are the plays, and after the plays. What other pleasures you're pursuing:. Taking cabs in the middle of the night,. Driving as if to save your soul. Where the road goes round and round the park. And the meter glares like a moral owl,. And it gets so terribly late,.
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What's Parker Reading?!?: Molloy, Malone Dies, and the Unnamble: The best trilogy since the Anaconda movies!
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Saturday, November 6, 2010. Molloy, Malone Dies, and the Unnamble: The best trilogy since the Anaconda movies! This is a shot from Samuel Beckett's famous play Waiting for Godot. If you've never seen the play and can't tell from the picture, its a very bizarre. The whole thing takes place in front of that scraggly tree and consists of only four characters who each seem to be copied and pasted out of completely different plays. Because Waiting for Godot. We have no names except the few the narrator arbitr...
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What's Parker Reading?!?: March 2013
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Saturday, March 2, 2013. George Saunders has been getting some pretty serious (or at least seriously public) cred for his latest short story collection, Tenth of December. I say information age expecting and probably deserving some eye rolls, but I think it’s a good way to contextualize Saunders’ unique style. Take the opening lines from “Exhortation:” “I would not like to characterize this as a plea, although it may start to sound like one (! These details emphasize what might be Saunders’ main fo...