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  1. America's "literary flowering" was "a rebellion against what was thought of as academic, effete and indoors-y in English writing."

    Althouse - Sep 21, 2008

    So how can a real, American literary artist take a job as a creative writing professor? Asks David Gessner. [I]t’s hard to imagine [Thoreau] taking a break from one of his marathon strolls to waste three hours …

    Also tagged: education, writing, economics, melville, emily dickinson

  2. Solitude and the lake.

    Althouse - Sep 20, 2008

    I took my walk to work yesterday down by the lake -- Lake Mendota. That makes the walk a few blocks longer, but the lake has its mystic pull for the solitary individual, as I was and often am on my walks around …

    Also tagged: photography, madison, solitude, emotional althouse, men in shorts, lake mendota, the amsterdam notebooks