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Tag Archives: Allen Barra
WSJ: A-Rod Is A-Okay
From our Late to the Party desk: Allen Barra in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal: Is A-Rod a Yankee Yet? Despite his 600 home runs, some New Yorkers remain skeptical of the baseball star. The reasons Barra cites: Rodriguez’s use of … Continue reading →
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Mocking “Mockingbird”
Friday’s Wall Street Journal featured an Allen Barra essay assigning Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (50th Anniversay Celebration here) to the dustbin of literary history. Nut graf: It’s time to stop pretending that “To Kill a Mockingbird” is some … Continue reading →
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Tagged 50th Anniversary, Allen Barra, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Wall Street Journal
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