Tag Archives: Thomas Wolfe

Ho-Hum; Or, Whatever Happened to the Capacity for Wonder?

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Boz

As we were driving home from seeing the movie Genius in Chapel Hill, my husband asked me why people don’t read Thomas Wolfe any more. My snappy retort masked what has been for some time an insidious fear: “Because they can no … Continue reading →

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Rites of Passage Part II: My Endless Summer of Thomas Wolfe

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Boz

A naïve and sheltered twenty-year-old baby boomer from a copper-mining town in Arizona who asked her revered teacher/guru for a list of books to teach her how to think, I probably didn’t expect the internal cataclysm that ensued. But I … Continue reading →

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Rites of Passage Part I: A Motley Pentateuch

Posted on June 5, 2016 by Boz

Spring 1973: As an overachieving, overprotected, overweight college sophomore, I approached the end of the spring semester with the dread of impending loss. In addition to my accustomed success in school that year, I had incrementally begun the process—equally exhilarating and … Continue reading →

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