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I find this article, linked from Conversational Reading, fascinating. While discussing Russell Banks’ book Affliction, Daniel Green posits some reasons why Banks, often read as a realist or naturalist in his later work, is actually continuing along the path on which he began, as an experimental or largely postmodern author who now uses the tools [...] White Trash Blues: Class Privilege vs. White Privilege Jennifer Kesler has some good points in this post from the blog Blind Privilege (see below for her comments indented after mine), and the comment stream is worth reading as well. I don’t necessarily believe everything she believes, but a lot of it rang true for me. I [...] I played this game with all my spare time back in the mid-90s when computer games were so much more fun than they are now. Its graphics are primitive, the plot is nonexistent. It’s a first-person shooter. I hate those kind of games, but this one holds a special place in my heart, and to [...] My father, an old slaughterhouse man, decided to keep hens on our property around my twelfth birthday. The coop was an unbalanced structure that sat close to the cold white bricks of the slaughterhouse and just down from our garage. One night, not long after trading for some chickens with a hunter who wanted [...] When I was born, with Highline Membrane Disease. The doctors gave me even odds. My father was out hunting, drunk. When Scarlet Fever found me. When the old dude who lived next door’s tree house gave way to one hundred feet of tree limbs, hitting and falling, then hitting again. My torso tangled in the rope swing, [...] One can hope this woman is employing irony. Let’s look at why women might label themselves this way: They want to get laid, easily (but does any woman –white trash or no–need to employ anything to do that?) This tells you everything you need to know. No kidding. I really am going to concentrate more on this fine place I’ve dug for myself, soon. In the interim, I’ve discovered that gas and oil leases in my home county, Bradford County in Pennsylvania, has seen a huge uptick in gas and oil leases in [...] |
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