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I’m going to begin by telling you about Miss Frost.

There’s a book excerpt from John Irving’s forthcoming novel In One Person over at the Simon & Schuster homepage.

(This on the same day a new Springsteen single comes out and I give my last lecture for this academic year. Now my happy new year may begin, thank you very much.)

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Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012. Tagged with: John Irvinghappy new year-take twoIn One Personfavouritesreading
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I love films, baseball, whales, good food, and guys in ties.
I teach literature, film and cultural studies at university.
I worship at the Church of Springsteen.
Sometimes I write reviews.
You may now also call me Doctor.

Byronic
[bai'ra:-nik] 1. Characteristic of, or after the manner of Byron or his poetry. 2. quasi-n. pl. [after Philippics.] Declamatory utterances or invectives in the style of Byron. 3. Byronic hero: prominent literary character type of the Romantic period, whose characteristics include: extraordinary intelligence and perception; high level of education and intellectual prowess; arrogance; cunning and manipulation; emotional conflictedness; moodiness; self-criticism and introspection; self-destructive behaviour; aesthetic sophistication; dark mysterious beauty; powers of attraction; seductiveness and sexual perversion; world-weariness; distaste for social institutions and norms; disrespect of social ranks; being an outcast, an outlaw, or an exile.

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