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Cody Parks is a UPS driver from Wilkes County, in rural western North Carolina. Last month, he came to Chapel Hill to hear the last lecture by a man who studies small fragments of ancient Greek ...

Lundquist, an English professor at North Hennepin Community College in Minnesota, debuts with a wrenching account of the breakup of her marriage to a gay man. Lundquist met her Continue reading » ...