Category: Literature
I’ve let many weeks slip by without posting here, but that doesn’t mean I’ve been idle. What I wouldn’t give for a stretch of idleness just about now… Teaching at the University of Tulsa has been wonderfully rewarding and inspiring, but between preparations for class, childcare, and an occasional conference—even an energizing one, like the […]
Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna and the Light of Childhood
Born April 10, 1778, William Hazlitt transformed English literature through essays that fused intellect and emotion. His vivid style, critical insight, and personal voice helped define the Romantic era and shaped modern literary thought, influencing generations of writers and deepening the way we reflect on art, politics, and human nature.
Birth of William Hazlitt – Voice of the Romantic Essay
With mid-April on the horizon, we’re heading towards another of Karen and Simon’s highly enjoyable ‘Club’ weeks – focusing, in this instance, on 1952. Starting Monday 21st April, the #1952Club is a week-long celebration of books first published that year. These reading events are always great fun, with various tweets, reviews and recommendations flying around […]
The forthcoming #1952 Club – some books I highly recommend!
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Où sont les enfants?
Maison et jardin vivent encore je le sais, mais qu’importe si la magie les a quittés, si le secret est perdu qui ouvrait, -lumière, odeurs, harmonie d’arbres et d’oiseaux, murmure de voix humaines qu’a déjà suspendu la mort, – un monde dont j’ai cessé d’être digne ?. Il arrivait qu’un livre, ouvert sur le dallage […]
Où sont les enfants?
“I think that I shall never knowWhy I am thus, and I am so.”—A Fairly Sad Tale, Dorothy Parker ⧫ The author of The Lady and the Little Fox Fur, Violette Leduc, was famously in love with and rejected by Simone de Beauvoir—author of the seminal feminist text, The Second Sex. Leduc wrote of this […]
Violette Leduc’s ‘The Lady and the Little Fox Fur & the Art of Distance
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