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‘Thank u, next’: Grande’s latest album is the dose of realism our Instagram captions needed
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‘Thank u, next’: Grande’s latest album is the dose of realism our Instagram captions needed

Following an absolutely electric release of two singles complete with elaborate music videos to promote her new album, the long-awaited release of Ariana Grande’s “thank u, next” dropped Friday, Feb. 8. Grande described the album as a “friendship anthem,” revealing a new focus on friendship, appropriate given the tumultuous love life of the past year....

A conversation with American author Dennis Covington
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A conversation with American author Dennis Covington

Dennis Covington was born in 1948 and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. In college, he studied under American short story writer Peter Taylor at the University of Virginia, where he earned his bachelor’s degree. Covington was drafted upon graduation, and served two years in the U.S. Army before entering the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, whose...

Visiting writer speaks on snake  handling in Southern churches
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Visiting writer speaks on snake handling in Southern churches

The small Dow A and B conference room bustled with eager students and excited professors who awaited author Dennis Covington’s reading from his renowned, “Salvation on Sand Mountain,” an account detailing his experience with Christian snakehandlers in the Appalachian Mountains. Professor of English John Somerville Jr. invited Covington to speak on Feb. 18 as part...

‘Necessary Society’: Junior hosts dinner parties to ask cultural questions
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‘Necessary Society’: Junior hosts dinner parties to ask cultural questions

Thud. Thud. Thud. It’s Friday night and Reagan Cool is making seven pizzas. The herb-seasoned dough makes another thud against the counter as she pushes in her rolling pin. When junior Reagan Cool went to Washington, D.C., in the fall, as a part of the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program, she was thinking about intentionality. Having been...