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It's a Book! Publishing the John Egan Story
At a climactic moment in my favorite comedy, Young Frankenstein, the mad Doctor proclaims his triumph, the reanimation of dead matter: “It’s alive!”
Sep 18, 2025
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Ken Egan Jr.
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Family
On Attending the Clan Egan Rally
Aug 19, 2025
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Ken Egan Jr.
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Shakespeare and Me
Part 2
Jul 31, 2025
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Ken Egan Jr.
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Cancer's Icy Breath
May 5, 2025
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Ken Egan Jr.
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Last Chance in the Last Best Place
Sep 3, 2024
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Ken Egan Jr.
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Still Haunted by Fiedler’s “Montana Face”
Oct 16, 2024
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Ken Egan Jr.
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Confronting Masculinity
Jul 20, 2023
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Ken Egan Jr.
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Three New Ways of Looking at the American West
Oct 20, 2023
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Ken Egan Jr.
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On Sherman's March to the Sea
Jun 5, 2023
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Ken Egan Jr.
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Shakespeare and Me
Part 1
Jul 14, 2025
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Ken Egan Jr.
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Rewarding Artists for Acts of Audacity
Paul Simon in "Miracle and Wonder"
Jul 1, 2025
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Ken Egan Jr.
Bloomsday: A Guide to "Ulysses"
In 2022, on the cusp of the 100th anniversary of Ulysses’s publication, I reread the novel and posted detailed responses on Facebook.
Jun 16, 2025
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Ken Egan Jr.
Confessions of a PMC*er
*Professional Managerial Class
Jun 2, 2025
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Ken Egan Jr.
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"I'm the worst dream America ever had"
Stephen Graham Jones's "The Buffalo Hunter Hunter"
May 21, 2025
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Ken Egan Jr.
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Cancer's Icy Breath
In my more self-pitying moments, I imagine cancer as a Tyrannosaurus rex bathing me in its icy breath before devouring me.
May 5, 2025
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Ken Egan Jr.
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Beatlemania Then and Now
Yes, inevitably, I was one of those American kids swept up in Beatlemania when the band appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in February, 1964.
Apr 22, 2025
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