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Bookish Diversions: Forget the Paperback?
Paperbacks in Decline, When Paperbacks Were King, Art and Science of Paper, Goatskin!
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Joel J Miller
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The Bible Is Weirder than We Usually Realize
A Textual Romp Through One of the World’s Better Known Classics
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Joel J Miller
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Open Thread: Big-Ass Classic Novels?
Help Me Pick 12 for Next Year
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Joel J Miller
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Kurt Vonnegut’s Ambivalent War on AI
Reviewing His Prescient Debut Novel ‘Player Piano’
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Joel J Miller
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Open Thread: Books that Define Your Worldview?
If You Had to Select Just 4, What Would They Be?
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Joel J Miller
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Bookish Diversions: Thomas Jefferson, Bookworm
Jefferson’s Complex Character, His Bookishness, His Writing, Sources of Inspiration, More
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Joel J Miller
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Do You Want What You Want? Edith Wharton’s ‘The Age of Innocence’
Reviewing a Classic Story of Divided Affections
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Joel J Miller
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June 2025

Note to Self: Watch Your Mouth
When We Don’t Speak Our Minds: Reviewing Glenn C. Loury’s ‘Self-Censorship’
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Joel J Miller
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Whatever Happened to the Semicolon?
Why Punctuation Is Less About Rules and More About Economics
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Joel J Miller
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Shadow Texts: Using AI to Teach Reading and Writing
How One Technology Informs Another
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Suzanne Smith
6
The Human Comedy of ‘The Betrothed’
Reviewing Alessandro Manzoni’s Beloved Italian Classic
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Joel J Miller
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Chickens? A Bigger Deal Than You’d Guess
Birds in Books: Chick Lit, Plus Sy Montgomery’s ‘What the Chicken Knows’ and Charles Willeford’s ‘Cockfighter’
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Joel J Miller
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