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Guernsey's forgotten novel
| Posted on: Saturday, July 17, 2010 |
Category: Writers |
If you hear an American accent on the Channel Island of Guernsey this summer, the chances are it will belong to someone who has read a certain novel that reading groups in the US have gone crazy for in the last couple of years.
Playing hookey with Tom and Huck
| Posted on: Sunday, April 18, 2010 |
Category: Writers |
Big storm over the Mississippi River. Right-thinking folks is indoors, minding their secret hoard of lickrish pieces and pinch-bug beetles, but we ain't no right-thinking folks. 'Let's go to the cemetery and cure some warts!' says the juvenile pariah sitting across from me.
Darwin and the earthworms
| Posted on: Sunday, February 15, 2009 |
Category: Writers |
In 1880 Charles Darwin published a book called The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms in which he asserted that 'Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than most persons would at first suppose.'
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