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Fairleigh Dickinson University

The Worst Team Money Could Buy

A Review of The Homecoming Party by Carmine Abate

August 22, 2016

Marion Wyce

Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar (New York, NY: Europa Editions, 2010) There’s a magnet on my refrigerator that pictures two sweet-faced, pony-tailed girls, perhaps sisters, grinning in a knowing way that suggests they’re sharing a private joke. Beneath the image … Continued

Sweet William

July 21, 2014

Scott Withiam

The book on gardens is inconclusive, in the margin maintains that A battle rages concerning the origin of the plant’s name: Saint William Of York versus Prince William Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland versus William the Conqueror. I have my … Continued

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