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The Coward: Reading, Memory, Fragments

The Coward: Reading, Memory, Fragments

This collection of personal essays recognize that reading's great gift is also its curse: "it is always, in its essence, an act of solitude."

2019

Stories

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The Adventures of Spenser Oakheart, World's Greatest Untenured Professor

The Palpitating

Spenser floating down the aisles of the local pharmacy, trying to hold steady the list in his mind. Toothbrush. Floss. Deodorant, sure…

May 21

The Palpitating

May 21

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Human Parts

Savage with Loveliness: What I Will Tell My Daughter About Reading Cormac McCarthy

Nov 28, 2023

Savage with Loveliness: What I Will Tell My Daughter About Reading Cormac McCarthy

Nov 28, 2023

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The Adventures of Spenser Oakheart, World's Greatest Untenured Professor

The Decanting

Sep 23, 2023

The Decanting

Sep 23, 2023

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Human Parts

What the Crows Bring

Do they think about you?

Sep 7, 2023

What the Crows Bring

Sep 7, 2023

The Most Important Sentence I Read This Year

Four words. That’s all it is. Four words, four syllables. I came across it late in my year of reading. Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger was…

Dec 31, 2022

The Most Important Sentence I Read This Year

Dec 31, 2022

The Execution

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Altered by the author.

Dec 13, 2022

The Execution

Dec 13, 2022

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The Adventures of Spenser Oakheart, World's Greatest Untenured Professor

The Gnawing

These are the dark days of summer.

Aug 30, 2022

The Gnawing

Aug 30, 2022

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Human Parts

The Corpse, the Ax, and the Ungloved Hand

On the Enduring Pleasures of Sad Stories

Aug 21, 2021

The Corpse, the Ax, and the Ungloved Hand

Aug 21, 2021

The Hammers and the Ribbon

It’s strange how much of your life hides in plain sight. The typewriter has been sitting on the shelf in our living room for years now, on…

Jul 15, 2021

The Hammers and the Ribbon

Jul 15, 2021

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The Adventures of Spenser Oakheart, World's Greatest Untenured Professor

The Leavening

Try making bread, everyone said. Flour, salt, water, heat. Tap the veins of civilization and marvel at the primal embers of human…

Jun 11, 2021

The Leavening

Jun 11, 2021

Gavin Paul

Gavin Paul

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English Professor. Author of "Conspiracy of One," a small book of short stories, and “The Coward," a collection of essays. amazon.com/author/gavinpaul

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