Tag Archives: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Rand Paul’s Misadventures with Poetry

By Robin Bates | Published: April 12, 2013

Senator Rand Paul’s often may misapply poetry, but the poems he chooses tell us a lot about Rand Paul.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "If You Forget Me", cultural stereotyping, Love in the Time of Cholera, Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Pablo Neruda, politics, Rand Paul, T. S. Eliot | Comments closed

“100 Years of Solitude” vs. United Fruit

By Robin Bates | Published: June 25, 2012

In a battle between Garcia Marquez’s “100 Years of Solitude” and the corporate behemoth United Fruit, the novel ultimately won.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged 100 Years of Solitude, Colonialism, Repression, United Fruit | Comments closed

Dear Frustrated in Love: Read a Classic

By Robin Bates | Published: January 25, 2012

Literature is better than any self help book for relationship guidance.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Aeneid, Jane Austen, love, Love in the Time of Cholera, Relationships, Sense and Sensibility, Virgil | Comments closed

The Favorite Books of American Presidents

By Robin Bates | Published: June 10, 2009

I’ve had fun discussing the reading of Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas over the last couple of days, and while I’ve come up dry on further posts about the Supreme Court and literature, it has given me the idea of periodically dipping into reading stories of other political figures. I’ll start a list here, beginning […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, Al Gore, Albert Camus, Barack Obama, Bible, Bill Clinton, Book of Job, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Cremation of Sam McGee, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Edward Arlington Robinson, Elizabeth Alexander, Eric Carle, From Russia with Love, George W. Bush, George Washington, Ian Fleming, James Dickey, John Kennedy, Joseph O'Neill, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Maya Angelou, Mr. Flood's Party, Netherworld, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Proverbs, Richard Corey, Richard Nixon, Richard Sheridan, Robert Frost, Ronald Reagan, School for Scandal, Shooting of Dan McGrew, Song of Solomon, Stendahl, Teddy Roosevelt, The Red and the Black, The Stranger, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Toni Morrison | Comments closed