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Joyce A. Morrison, 77, of Gettysburg, passed away peacefully at her home on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, following her courageous fight with pancreatic cancer. Born on Feb. 28, 1944, in Oil City, Pa., she was the daughter of the late William J. and Loretta Gilmore Dempsey. Joyce married her high school sweetheart and devoted husband of 55 years, Gary L. Morrison, on March 4, 1966. Joyce was a graduate of Oil City High School, Class of 1962, where she was a varsity cheerleader, secretary of the senior class, and was a member of the Acapella Choir and National Honor Society. She then attended Slippe...

Borges, Bolaño and the Return of the Epic During their lifetimes, Jorge Luis Borges and Roberto Bolaño struggled against vanity and all things pretentious, aspirational, ordinary, and obliging. They are peculiar cases in literature, ones that the literary machine itself seems to reject. They were not bestsellers. During a substantial part of their lives, they existed either under the shadow of public rejection, or in the clandestinity of aesthetic infringement. The relationship they sustained with "their time" and the writers of their time was complex and peppered with barbs. Certainly, wha...