"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Monday, October 20, 2003 Etc… A lesson in How Not to Write, courtesy of the Professoriate * More on bad academic writing * The Scotsman's Michael Pye on Brideshead:The real trouble with how we think of Evelyn Waugh is Brideshead Revisited. It sits there, among the rest of his novels, a great empty blockbuster: sentimental, self-consciously God-bothering in a way no truly religious writer would indulge, and nostalgic for a past that never was... * John Mortimer on life, death and champagne * If it's October, it's Witch Tour time in Salem, where the renovated Peabody Essex Museum has been getting good reviews
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