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Associate Professor Stefane August, Brooding Mentor Dream Boat I’ve just started reading The Marriage of Sticks by Jonathan Carroll, and at about 75 pages in, I knew I needed to come up with a counterpart to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, the effervescent ingenue who brings magic to the life of some world-weary boring [...] I have anxiety issues. My mind finds potential problems and obsesses over them. When I was in grad school, I would close my eyes at night with a roar in my ears, thoughts of reading and essays creating a wash of mental sound that kept me awake at night and made my eyes twitch in [...] |
My Opium Den
After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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