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Reading Lolita in Tehran and Weiner in Washington D.C.

Posted on June 11, 2011 by freecatholic808 — Leave a comment

I finished Azar Nafisi’s wonderful memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran just as the story of Weiner’s online sexual antics broke. Nafisi’s memoir of resistance to tyranny through the liberating power of literature makes the point that one should not let…

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