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Reading
Life: A Writer's Reader
Inge Fink, With Gabrielle Gautreaux
Fink and
Gautreaux's undergraduate text posits that before writers can convey their
experiences, ideas, and opinions effectively, they have to be able to "read"
life's texts, whether they're remembered, written, or visual. They provide 88
examples of essays drawn from the classics as well as the popular press that
serve as rhetorical examples for broad topics such as human relations, body
politics, appetites and addictions, and cause and effect. They include 32 pages
of color images as well as b&w photos and drawings to illustrate themes or serve
as subjects for compositions
Book of the Month
Reading
Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi
Every Thursday
morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired
teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female
students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged
arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and
a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi’s living
room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane
Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this
extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are
reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of
resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of
literature
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