wesleyan Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/wesleyan Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Mon, 25 May 2026 15:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg wesleyan Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/wesleyan 32 32 What Made Grandma Grandma? Graver Fleshes her out, using Family History and Fiction https://www.halphillips.net/what-made-grandma-grandma-kantika-avoids-overworked-immigration-tropes-with-fiction?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-made-grandma-grandma-kantika-avoids-overworked-immigration-tropes-with-fiction https://www.halphillips.net/what-made-grandma-grandma-kantika-avoids-overworked-immigration-tropes-with-fiction#respond Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:16:03 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=5347 Book Review There is historical fiction. There are the literary cousins of memoir and family history. Then there is the canny, lyric hybrid Elizabeth Graver conjures in Kantika, the 2023 novel that tracks her own family’s 20th-century journey from Constantinople to America, by way of Barcelona and Havana. Don’t worry: Ellis Island and its many […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/what-made-grandma-grandma-kantika-avoids-overworked-immigration-tropes-with-fiction/feed 0 Professor Nat Greene: Come on Down! https://www.halphillips.net/professor-nat-greene-come?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=professor-nat-greene-come https://www.halphillips.net/professor-nat-greene-come#respond Sat, 19 Aug 2017 12:37:17 +0000 http://www.halphillips.net/?p=2902 As yours probably does, my alma mater hits me all too frequently with some manner of e-newsletter cum fund-raising communiqué. One can hardly escape the memories stirred/jarred by all this WesContact, which is surely the way they want it. In any case, a recent MailChimp morsel revealed, among other things, that three Wesleyan University faculty, […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/professor-nat-greene-come/feed 0 Bowie’s Impact, Departure Still Sinking In https://www.halphillips.net/bowies-impact-departure-still-sinking-in?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bowies-impact-departure-still-sinking-in https://www.halphillips.net/bowies-impact-departure-still-sinking-in#respond Wed, 01 Feb 2017 09:12:58 +0000 http://theaposition.com/halphillips/?p=1895 As was the case with many artists of the 1970s, David Bowie was introduced to me via my older sister. Janet brought home Hunky Dory at some point late in the Nixon Administration and when she wasn’t playing it to death, I played it to death. In truth I hardly ever bothered with Side 2 […]

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