by Eric Franklin on November 1, 2009
I’ve been participating in the Infinite Summer project since it began back in June. The project brought together tons of people around the world to read Infinite Jest throughout the summer and then more recently read Dracula during the month of October. I’ve been hosting bi-weekly Seattle area meetups throughout the online reading projects and [...]
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by Eric Franklin on October 20, 2009
The relations of self to other oftentimes reveal the deeply antagonistic relations of class, race and gender. Nowhere are the dichotomous natures of these relationships more apparent than in the novel Dracula. The shifting viewpoints of the narrative, given to the reader as journal entries, letters, and news story snippets, represent these differences in a [...]
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by Eric Franklin on October 1, 2009
Having just polished off “Infinite Jest,” the Infinite Summer Project has decided to continue their hosting of a large online book group with “Dracula” for the month of October. At The Puget News Reading Group meeting to wrap-up IJ, we decided to stick with the program and read along with Infinite Summer at least through [...]
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