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A blog for my academic ideas, more or less.

Rolling Henry Louis Gates Jr. Style.

Reposted from my Tumblr, because I went to the effort of typing this up and it keeps blowing my mind with how well-argued and everything it is.

Henry Louis Gates Jr: Hello?

The Enlightenment: Yes?

HLG Jr: Is that the Enlightenment?

TE: Yes, yes it is. What can I do for you?

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What Some People Are Reading

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Sandwich Sunday VII

Some themes this week:

Friends making things; TV; moving images; commerce; periodicals.

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McSweeney’s Print Books

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McSweeney’s print books.

McSweeney’s.

Print.

Books.

McSweeney’s & Print & Books.

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The faithfulness of his promises displayed.

  • Prisoners of Hope: The Story of Our Captivity and Freedom in Afghanistan by Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer, with Stacy Mattingly
  • Bruchko: The Astonishing True Story of a 19-Year-Old American, His Capture by the Motilone Indians and His Adventures in Christianizing the Stone Age Tribe by Bruce Olson
  • Escape in Iraq: The Thomas Hamill Story by Thomas Hamill, Paul T Brown and Jay Langston
  • American Hostage: A Memoir of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq and the Remarkable Battle to Win His Release by Micah Garen and Marie-Helene Carleton
  • Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis – The First Battle in America’s War with Militant Islam by Mark Bowden
  • Long March to Freedom: Tom Hargrove’s Own Story of his Kidnapping By Colombian Narco-Guerillas by Tom Hargrove
  • Den of Lions: A Startling Memoir of Survival and Triumph by Terry Anderson
  • 13 Days of Terror: Held Hostage by Al-Qaeda Linked Extremists — A True Story by Greg Williams

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About Me:

My name is Kevin O'Neill and I am in the third year of a part-time PhD in the English Department of Goldsmiths, London, UK.

My research centres around the literary journal McSweeney's. My interest is developing into what McSweeney's tells us about two separate (but I guess related) fields: 1) literary institutions 2) American cultural production, more broadly.
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