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In arguably his most personal and lasting work, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than 80 texts by canonical authors - texts he has had by heart since childhood.

This companion to the internationally bestselling series will delve into the creation of Robert Jordan’s masterpiece, drawing from interviews and an unprecedented examination of his unpublished notes. Michael Livingston tells the behind-the-scenes story of who Jordan was (including a chapter that is the very first published biography of the author), how he worked, and why he holds such an important place in modern literature.

Jen Brister and Kerry Godliman nose around their guests' old photos to see what they’ve been doing with their lives. INSTA - https://www.instagram.com/memory_lane_podcast/

What if almost everything that could possibly trigger addiction happened to you? What if you convinced everyone, including yourself, that you were happy for a long while, until in an instant, your life became a futile daily quest to trap joy? What if every time darkness subsumed you, a divine memory bolt pierced through and the lesson from it became your deliverance? This is my story. In my journey through addiction, I discovered that the power to move forward existed within my past. Every story I remembered in bondage opened a new chapter in the book that wrote me to freedom.

The child of South-Asian migrants, Kazim Ali was born in London, lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba, and made a life in the United States. As a man passing through disparate homes, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And yet, one day, he finds himself thinking of Jenpeg, a community thrown up around the building of a hydroelectric dam on the Nelson River, where he once lived for several years as a child. Does the town still exist, he wonders? Is the dam still operational?

Growing up north of Toronto, R.H. Thomson’s imagination was captured by romantic notions of war. He spent his days playing with toy soldiers on the carpet of his grandmother’s house, recreating the Battle of Britain with model planes in his bedroom, or sitting at the local theatre watching World War II B movies—ones that offered a very clear perspective on who were the heroes and who the villains; which side were the victors and which the vanquished.