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10 Obscure Books Recommended by CU English Faculty

Feb. 4, 2021

Grab a cup of tea and a fluffy blanket, then get cozy in your favorite reading nook to escape into one of these 10 little-known books recommended by CU English Faculty.

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What's in My Phone: Adam Bradley

Oct. 1, 2019

English professor Adam Bradley is the author of The Poetry of Pop and co-author of The New York Times bestseller One Day It’ll All Make Sense, the 2012 memoir of rapper and actor Common.

Cover of Nan Goodman’s book, “The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination"

The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination

In Nan Goodman’s book, “The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination,” she traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England.

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Video: Professor or Rock Star? Both

May 7, 2018

Steve Lamos, who teaches English, writing and rhetoric at CU Boulder, is also the drummer for American Football, a late-’90s rock band that Rolling Stone ranks among the “Top 10 All Time” emo bands.

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Books and Movies

March 1, 2018

When Mitchell Kaplan launched Books & Books in Miami in 1982, the business was the size of a one-bedroom apartment.

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Better than Babel

Sept. 1, 2017

Samuel Boyd has a way with languages.

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The Poetry of Pop

By Adam Bradley

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Extended Version: Drummer Has a PhD

March 1, 2017

Steve Lamos, who teaches English, writing and rhetoric at CU Boulder, is also the drummer for American Football, a late-’90s rock band that Rolling Stone ranks among the “Top 10 All Time” emo bands.