Monday June 22, 2009 at 8:07
4 notes“Oh, we all hated Holden [Caulfield] in my class. We just wanted to tell him, ‘Shut up and take your Prozac.’”
— a 15-year-old Long Island high-school student, quoted here
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Your host is Alan Jacobs.
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Original Sin: a Cultural History
Looking Before and After: Testimony and the Christian Life
The Narnian: the Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis
Shaming the Devil: Essays in Truthtelling
A Theology of Reading: the Hermeneutics of Love
A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age
What Became of Wystan: Change and Continuity in Auden’s Poetry
