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Valerie Sayers | Santiago Ramos | Patricia Hampl | Lauretta O'Connor | David S. Cunningham

PATRICIA HAMPL One cannot read a book, one can only reread it,” Vladimir Nabokov famously remarked. “A good reader, a major reader,” he explained, is necessarily a rereader because a book cannot be apprehended instantaneously the way a painting can be “taken in.” Only second, third, even fourth readings allow the mind to grasp its entirety. Rereading, occurring over a (...)


 

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about the writer

Valerie Sayers's new novel, The Powers, was published this year. She is chair of the English Department at the University of Notre Dame.

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Santiago Ramos is pursuing doctoral studies in philosophy at Boston College. He has written for First Things, Image, the Catholic Key, and the Pitch, a Kansas City weekly.

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Patricia Hampl is the author of The Florist's Daughter and several other books. She teaches creative writing at the University of Minnesota.

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Lauretta O’Connor, Commonweal's former office manager, lives in Fairfield, Connecticut.

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David S. Cunningham is professor of Religion and director of the CrossRoads Project at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. His most recent book is Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Literary Meditations on Suffering, Death, and New Life (Westminster John Knox).

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