Reflections in The Bell Jar: Esther Greenwood as Sylvia Plath
By Hannah White Can we fully separate the artist from their art? This is not a new question, but one that repeatedly demands to be…
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When the Show Can’t Go On: Orlando Entertainment in the Time of COVID
By Kate Bustillos For over 10 years, I have had the privilege of making magic and bringing stories to life in Orlando, Florida. I wielded…
Road Scholarship: Literary Travel in the Age of Coronavirus
By Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera Perhaps home is not a place but an irrevocable condition. -James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room. Twenty-one years ago, I moved from Massachusetts to…
Henry Miller and Me
By James Michael Dorsey It was 1973 when I unexpectedly landed a job as a letter carrier in the idyllic seaside community of Pacific Palisades,…
Crime Writers Tour: In Search of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie
By Stephen Margrett With an appreciative nod to Wilkie Collins and others who blazed the trail, it really started with Sherlock Holmes. In his first…
Macondo Magic and Other Blessings
By Suzanne Adam The death of Gabriel García Márquez prompted me to reread his Nobel-winning One Hundred Years of Solitude,“Cien Años de Soledad” in Spanish—the…
Travel from Home while Social Distancing
By Jaclyn Tilks We all know in our hearts that if we are at home social distancing, we are the lucky ones. If we aren’t…
Theaters in the Age of COVID-19: A Look at the Past and Future of Cinema
By Hannah White As a dedicated movie-goer, one thing I have really been missing since March is that excited feeling you get when you walk…
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Cross Creek
Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to…
Libraries and Bookstores Foster Community during a Pandemic
By Hannah White Bookstores and libraries are places often associated with solitude. And while it’s true that not much is better than curling up in…