by Jennifer Acker
He has been hailed as a writer who excels in the investigation of memory, but it’s not a fixed past that offers the siren’s call; it is a past that dreams of and anticipates a future full of longing for itself. Continue reading »
by Evelyn Somers
If her African childhood was exotic, her religious upbringing would seem even more so in the academic circles Orr had entered as an adult. To talk about her background among her colleagues felt “scandalous.”
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by Vicraj Gill
“This is the strangest thing I know. The more we understand something, the more we know nothing!” Continue reading »
“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes.” Continue reading »
by Edward Porter
As a literary figure Zora Neale Hurston was once the darling of her day, then consigned to the dust bin of history, then raised up again to take her place in the pantheon of American letters. Continue reading »
by Robert Earle
Some say Clemens even wrote Grant’s memoirs. Not true. The plain style of the American West, yes, you can find that in both Samuel Clemens and U.S. Grant, but no one other than a general could march this tale of war down one page and up another the same way Grant marched entire armies on the fields of battle. Continue reading »
“It is necessary that we dream now and then . . . but when once the dream is dreamed it is time to wake up and ‘get busy.’” Continue reading »
