The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 27th, 1999
An undergraduate in college, forced to take two English classes to fulfill the humanities requirement for my science degree, I slouched at the back of the lecture hall, choking down back-to-back lectures on "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." I'd already read the story, twice, in high school English classes. Senior year, while the rest of the students discussed "Papa's" genius, I'd re-written the story (in which a submissive husband re-discovers his masculinity on safari, only to be shot dead by his emasculating wife) from the wife's point of view. Everything I read in English classes ...
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