flickering pictures

One year ago today, the very first post went live here at Flickering Pictures, and I leapt headfirst into the great unknown of the blogosphere. I’d wanted to do this for a long time, but kept putting it off, like I’d put off a lot of things I wanted to do. Since then, I’ve been [...]

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Much to the consternation of the poor woman who tried to teach me a British literature course in college, I never could get into Jane Austen. Still, I like to think I’ve done some growing since those years, and I think I’ve finally found an Austen novel that I can really sink my teeth into. [...]

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A neat new U.S.-based news service called the Global Post has started covering events around the world, with an emphasis on regions that traditionally fly under the mainstream radar and a novel insistence that its reporters must live full-time in the countries they cover. It’s too early to say if it’ll live up to its [...]

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