Do people still read books? It depends on whom you ask. A Wall Street Journal Article posed the question differently: "Does the Book Have a Future?"
Published: Saturday, December 21st, 2019 @ 1:56 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Author Jim Grimsley will meet with East Carolina University students and read from his best-selling memoir, "How I Learned to Shed My Skin," on Sept. 22.
Published: Tuesday, October 4th, 2016 @ 12:08 am
By: ECU News Services
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This year's North Carolina Literary Review (NCLR), now on its way to readers throughout the state, celebrates the 25th issue of the publication
Published: Friday, July 29th, 2016 @ 5:37 am
By: ECU News Services
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The theme of this year's issue of the award-winning North Carolina Literary Review is "North Carolina Literature in a Global Context." The print issue features cover art by Chapel Hill resident Eduardo Lapetina, a native of Argentina.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 11:36 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Results from the 2014 U.S. History, Geography, and Civics at Grade 8 tests were released this week.
Published: Wednesday, May 6th, 2015 @ 2:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For its 2014 print issue, North Carolina Literary Review devotes its special feature section to "War in North Carolina Literature." This in-depth exploration includes an interview with author Robert Morgan, who points out, "It is one of the mysteries of human life, and human history that...
Published: Friday, July 11th, 2014 @ 3:15 pm
By: ECU News Services
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My title has two meanings. The first is that, since the 1980s at least, what calls itself literary criticism has consisted largely of abstract theory, less concerned with literature than with itself.
Published: Friday, May 30th, 2014 @ 11:59 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Thankfully, much is being made of Heather Mac Donald's recent piece, "The Humanities and Us," in the City Journal. She illustrates the decline of college English departments, where "gender, sexuality, race, and class" have taken over Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare. The radicals of the...
Published: Saturday, February 1st, 2014 @ 1:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Shortly after clocks were introduced to Japan in the sixteenth century, Japanese inventors used the principles underlying the clock’s movements to create robots.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 @ 6:17 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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