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In Kristen Hadeed’s “Permission To Screw Up,” A Cheerful, Nimble Corrective To Millennial Stereotypes

October 22, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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FPC Graduate Kristen Hadeed’s first book traces the stumbles of her 10-year journey as CEO of Student Maid, a cleaning company in Gainesville, with wit and counter-intuitive insights: a review.

Flagler Kills Together:
Bill O’Reilly’s Re-Assassination of JFK

March 14, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing Kennedy,” this year’s choice for the annual Flagler Reads Together event, is not the usual O’Reilly polemic and provides in parts a fair summary of Kennedy’s presidency and the assassination, but it also has many flaws, writes Pierre Tristam.

Philip Roth’s Everyman

December 11, 2011 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

In Everyman, this is the Philip Roth writing the eulogy from behind the ordinariness, the Roth who reads hearts like America’s best social cardiologist, still writing like it’s a midday office tryst he can pull off with as much virility as Portnoy in his prime.

N-Word Reckonings: Wrestling With An Incendiary Word In and Out of Context

February 19, 2011 | Pierre Tristam | 4 Comments

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This essay on the history of the n-word as weapon is a postscript to the Mockingbird controversy and an introduction to next weekend’s performances. It is presented in the spirit of education, discussion—and, hopefully, debate.

God’s Plagues, Man’s Fates, Roth’s Nemeses

February 6, 2011 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

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With Nemesis, Philip Roth puts an end to to a quartet of novels about death, dying and disease. Roth’s books are as much elegy as honest preparation. There’s no faulting him for not deluding us.

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