The Duck-Billed Reader
Claire Laporte, Tim PeltasonThe Duck-Billed Reader is a newsletter that features essays on literature, sometimes dipping into art and philosophy.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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Falling Into Imaginary Worlds: an Exploration of a Recurring Motif in Landscapes and Literature
The Duck-Billed Reader features essays about literature, mostly Victorian, and art. Please subscribe!
Recently, I was doing research for a post about a novel in which a character is pushed off a cliff (An Eye for an Eye, post at this link)...
Empty Heads and Fixed Ideas: the Range of the Comic Imagination
Several of my (Claire’s) recent posts have centered on my conviction that Anthony Trollope is the true heir to Jane Austen. Austen and Trollope are the two greatest 19th century writers of the marriage plot, and both use distinctive narrato...
Adventures with AI: Don't Trust What You See in the Mirror
I’ve been following the ferment over AI with interest. Writers fall into several camps: the doomsayers, who are afraid of and angry about AI; the adopters, who love it and are avidly outsourcing everything they can to it; the worrieds, who...
What Happens in Ireland Does Not Stay in Ireland
At twenty-six, Anthony Trollope escaped from his debts and disreputability by moving to Ireland. He had begun his career as a civil servant at the General Post Office in London at nineteen, at an annual salary of £90. He was an immature sca...
Does What Happens in Australia Stay in Australia?
In 1879, Anthony Trollope published two novels set partly in England’s colonies: John Caldigate, in which important events occur in Australia, and An Eye for an Eye, which travels back and forth between Dorsetshire and Ireland. Both of thes...
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I used to be an intellectual property trial lawyer. Now I help people discover what's fun about literature. I'm the President of the Trollope Society USA, dedicated to the work of Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope.
I taught in the English department at Wellesley College for many years. My wife and I continue to live in Wellesley. We travel frequently, especially to California and suburban DC where our grandchildren live.
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