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Tag Archives: John Demos
A Rumination on “Perhaps”: Demos, Editing, and First Book Projects
Confession: I hated John Demos’s The Unredeemed Captive when I read it in graduate school. So much so that whenever my future roommate and I became frustrated by the vagaries of our PhD experience, we’d lapse into extended wailing cries of “EUNICE!” that stretched across apartments, parking lots, and doubtless a library lobby or two. I’m not sure why it seemed so funny to us, but then, comprehensive exams do strange things to graduate students’ psyches. Continue reading
The Week in Early American History
This is your late-running Week in Early American History service. Thanks for waiting! Continue reading