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February 28, 2011March 2, 2011 - Uncategorized

Reading Caponegro’s The Complexities of Intimacy: “The Son’s Burden”

This 113-page novella is the centerpiece of Caponegro’s book of stories. As in the first stories (articles here, here and…

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February 18, 2011February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized

Reading Caponegro’s The Complexities of Intimacy: “The Father’s Blessing”

“The Father’s Blessing” is the longest story in The Complexities of Intimacy so far, and it’s a major comedic turn,…

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February 12, 2011February 15, 2011 - Uncategorized

Reading Caponegro: “The Mother’s Mirror”

The more I delve into Caponegro’s art, the more I see an anthropologist at work–a Joycean scientist who curls bright,…

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February 10, 2011February 10, 2011 - Uncategorized

Reading Caponegro: “The Daughter’s Lamentation”

The first story in Mary Caponegro’s book we are reading for February is “The Daughter’s Lamentation.” Caponegro follows the word…

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February 2, 2011 - Uncategorized

February’s Big Other Book Club – Mary Caponegro

This month we will be reading The Complexities of Intimacy by Mary Caponegro. It’s a book of 4 short stories…

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December 26, 2010January 6, 2011 - Uncategorized

Announcing the Book Club Schedule!

The votes are in, and the winner of the poll for the first book to be discussed in the Big…

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