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I wear bullet-proof vests for no apparent reason other than to create a false sense of importance of which I could never retain on my own.
January 7, 2012
Boosted by a new generation of students eager to explore the state’s confluence of luxury and despair, of exploration and reinvention, courses in California Lit have popped up in schools such as Bowling Green University in Ohio and Carleton College in Minnesota as well as UC, Cal State and private campuses in California. The courses often focus on the tension between California as a fantasized place of new beginnings and the harsh disappointments that follow. They explore how fictional works unfold against a natural backdrop that combines beguiling beauty and the ever-present threat of earthquakes and fires.
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Larry Gordon, Students sample the large shelf of California literature

Every time I read about an interesting American literature course, my resentment of UMD’s English program increases tenfold. (And said resentment is already out of control considering the fact that I finished my English degree a year and a half ago.)

yes and yes.

(via alexbaca)