“All have remained out of sight for almost 80 years; tucked away in library archives and private collections. But apart from the title story, I’d Die for You, the contents remain a secret.”
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What Do The Emmy Nominations Tell Us About TV Right Now?
“Is it a coincidence that the networks most famous for giving showrunners a long leash and a plenty of creative freedom are doing so well? Hmmm. Something to think about … “
The Canadian Who Wrote The Book That Became ‘Field Of Dreams’
“Kinsella began writing ‘Shoeless Joe’ as a student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in Iowa City near where the story was set. The story, which was published in 1982, follows a farmer who is coaxed in a dream to build a ballpark in a corn field and is visited by the ghost of “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, the White Sox star who was banned from baseball over the 1919 World Series betting scandal.”
Research Refutes Noam Chomsky’s “Universal Language” Theories
“His universal grammar was put forward as an innate component of the human mind—and it promised to reveal the deep biological underpinnings of the world’s 6,000-plus human languages. The most powerful, not to mention the most beautiful, theories in science reveal hidden unity underneath surface diversity, and so this theory held immediate appeal. But evidence has overtaken Chomsky’s theory, which has been inching toward a slow death for years.”