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Summer reading recommendation: The Swerve
“People, having rid themselves of such fears and superstitions, should instead seek happiness through the pursuit of pleasure and beauty.” —from The American Scholar’s  review of Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction (for the first time in 35 years, there was no fiction award)
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Summer reading recommendation: The Swerve

“People, having rid themselves of such fears and superstitions, should instead seek happiness through the pursuit of pleasure and beauty.” —from The American Scholar’s  review of Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction (for the first time in 35 years, there was no fiction award)

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The American Scholar is the venerable and lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won four National Magazine Awards, the industry’s highest honor, and many of its essays and articles have been selected for the yearly Best American anthologies.

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