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Phillip Barron

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Devoted to the humanities, Phillip Barron is a writer and award-winning digital media artist living in Davis, California. His writings appear in academic journals as well as magazines, newspapers, and poetry journals. Barron has taught philosophy at the Chapel Hill and Greensboro campuses of the University of North Carolina, developed digital media projects at the National Humanities Center, and now works in digital history at the University of California, Davis.

He bikes to work every day on a 1989 Specialized Hard Rock mountain bike modified with an Xtracycle Free-Radical. This long-tail bike (pictured in The Outspokin' Cyclist) makes the car-free lifestyle easy. See photos and more at http://nicomachus.net/tag/xtracycle/

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As many of you know, I am deeply interested in ways that developments in digital technology change our relationship to traditional cultural values, especially when it comes to the digital's impact on reading, the cultural transmission of knowledge, and those mainstays of humanistic thought: books. Don't get me wrong. I'm no cheerleader for all things digital. Sometimes, in the midst of hyperven...

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The Outspokin' Cyclist
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The Adventures of Augie March

by Saul Bellow

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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water

by Marc Reisner

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Phillip Barron added A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen: Poems by Martin Espada read in September, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Phillip Barron added The Republic of Poetry by Martin Espada read in July, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Phillip Barron added Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre by Voltairine de Cleyre read in October, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Phillip Barron rated a book 4 of 5 stars The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides read in March, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
While I grew attached to the characters, I could not help but think that Eugenides was not making their voices distinct enough. It's an imagining of what a Jane Austen novel — with all its complex social conventions around love, courtship, and marria...more
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