Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 26
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year's book. Here's Chapter 26: A Pious King; The King's Clergy; She Asked His...
View ArticleFlagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 27
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year's book. Here's Chapter 27: The Funeral; Satisfying Curiosity; Suspicious of...
View ArticleFlagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 28
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year's book. Here's Chapter 28: The Trip to England; "The Brute!"; Mary Jane Decides...
View ArticleFlagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 29
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year's book. Here's Chapter 29: Contested Relationship; The King Explains the Loss; A...
View ArticleFlagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 30
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year's book. Here's Chapter 30: The King Went for Him; A Royal Row; Powerful Mellow;...
View ArticleFlagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 31
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year's book. Here's Chapter 31: Ominous Plans; News from Jim; Old Recollections; A...
View ArticleFlagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 32
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year's book. Here's Chapter 32: Still and Sunday-like; Mistaken Identity; Up a Stump;...
View ArticleCapital Punishment As a Crime More Dreadful Than Murder: Dostoyevsky on the...
The death penalty, in this passage from Dostoevsky's "The Idiot," is seen as a punishment mostly for what precedes it--and an indictment of those who impose capital punishment. The post Capital...
View ArticleThe Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan in Normandy
Reagan's speech at Normandy's Pointe du Hoc on June 6, 1984, commemorating the 40th anniversary of D-Day, is one of his noblest, especially in retrospect, for what he said about the cold war, the...
View ArticleFor a Happy Saturnalian Christmas: How To have A Good Time
Fulton J. Sheen was that rarity of Catholic sermonizers: he was witty, earthy and unfriendly to religion's two heels : dogma and doctrine. "How to Have a Good Time" is one of his most celebrated...
View ArticleWallace Stevens Read by Bill Murray
Bill Murray reads two poems by Wallace Stevens, "The Planet on the Table" and "A Rabbit As King of the Ghosts" as part of Poets House's 17th Annual Poetry Walk. The post Wallace Stevens Read by Bill...
View ArticleFlagler Live-Blogs Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman,” Chapter 1: Back to Maycomb
Ten diverse and opinionated members of the Flagler-Palm Coast community take on Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" in a new experiment in communal reading, chapter by chapter. Join us. The post Flagler...
View ArticleFlagler Live-Blogs Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman,” Chapter 2: Atticus-Scout...
Ten diverse and opinionated members of the Flagler-Palm Coast community take on Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" in a new experiment in communal reading, chapter by chapter. Join us. The post Flagler...
View ArticleFlagler Live-Blogs Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman,” Chapter 3: Aunt...
In Chapter 3 of "Go Set a Watchman," Scout and Aunt Alexandra rumble over Henry, and our 10 readers respond every which way. The post Flagler Live-Blogs Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman,” Chapter 3:...
View ArticleFlagler Live-Blogs Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman,” Chapter 4: Maycomb Delta
In Chapter 4 of "Go Set a Watchman," Scout and Henry have a date after Lee gives us a brief history of Maycomb, in words almost identical to those used in Mockingbird. The post Flagler Live-Blogs...
View ArticleFlagler Live-Blogs Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman,” Chapter 5: Days Of Her...
In Chapter 5 of "Go Set a Watchman," Scout flashes back to childhood as she skates on a date with Henry. The post Flagler Live-Blogs Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman,” Chapter 5: Days Of Her Lives...
View ArticleFlagler Live-Blogs Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman,” Chapter 6: Skinny...
In Chapter 6 of "Go Set a Watchman," Scout and Henry take a dip in the waters off Finch Landing, fully clothed, but no one believes they stayed modest. The post Flagler Live-Blogs Harper Lee’s “Go Set...
View ArticleFlagler Live-Blogs Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman,” Chapter 7: Doxology...
In Chapter 7 of "Go Set a Watchman," a church service turns into an example of Northern aggression against Southern hymnals and Doxology. The post Flagler Live-Blogs Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman,”...
View ArticleAtticus Finch, Grand Wizard of the KKK: Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman,”...
In Chapter 8 of "Go Set a Watchman," Scout discovers that her father Atticus is the leader of a KKK-like organization, and her boyfriend is just as much as a white supremacist. The post Atticus Finch,...
View ArticleScout’s Dishonors: Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman,” Chapter 9
In Chapter 9 of "Go Set a Watchman," Harper Lee gives us a short biography of Scout's past between various deaths and blood flows, without as yet revisiting her recent discovery about a bigoted father....
View ArticleEntrapments of Color Blindness: Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman,” Chapter 10
There's a bit of vomit to start off Chapter 10 of Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman," much of it from our contributing writers, who have a hard time understanding how it takes Scout 25 years to discover...
View ArticleFlagler Hikes Together: “Grandma Gatewood’s Walk” Kicks Off Annual Readers’...
Flagler Reads Together, the annual March event, began Friday with Ben Montgomery speaking of his book, "Grandma Gatewood's Walk," this year's featured title, before 84 people at the Flagler County...
View ArticleWeekend Briefing: Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll at CRT, Jax Pops and PCAF, Domestic...
Local stages will be rich with plays and musicals this weekend--"Sex Drugs, Rock n Roll" at City Rep, "Into the Woods" at the Playhouse, "Spelling Bee" at Matanzas, and of course the Palm Coast Arts...
View ArticleThe Live Daily Quote Archive, 2017-2021
The archives of the Briefing's Live Daily Quote, covering every imaginable idea, philosophy, religion, politics, from the sublime to the outrageous to the astonishing, with style and substance,...
View ArticleIgnoraunce Incarno: The Wrongheaded Calls to Cancel Chaucer
It’s true that Chaucer’s work contains toxic material, including sexist and antisemitic material. But if you examine his writings in detail, you’ll see themes of concern for women and human rights, the...
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