Sylvia Plath and Winthrop-By-The-Sea
By Jeffery Round During her early years, Sylvia Plath lived in a number of places in Massachusetts. Of her youthful residences, none is more bleakly picturesque…
Tag: American Authors
Zora Neale Hurston, A Literary Life
By Michelle Potter “It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk.” – Their…
Hemingway in the Snow
Hemingway's tracks in the snow are easy to follow. This was the Hemingway of the 20's. Back from the Great War, Hemingway was still on his way. A repo…
Sunrise at Walden Pond
by Francis McGovern The morning was a time that offered much to Henry David Thoreau and Walden Pond seemed a fitting place to celebrate the…
My Own Walden
A few years ago, I had a co-worker who was forever being reprimanded for reading on the job. As his customers clamored for their Vegetable Alfredo's a…
An Encounter with William Stafford
A life that gives rise to 51 books in the short span of 79 years can certainly be regarded as literary. William Stafford lived such a life.
Barry Hannah’s Late Love Song to Mississippi: “Get Some Young”
By William Caverlee. In devising his strange fictions, Mississippi’s Barry Hannah was nearer to a poet and musician than a prose writer, and his language…
10 Must-Watch Page-to-Screen Adaptations for Film Buffs
By Wesley Sharer Award show season is just beginning, and as we look forward to the Oscars (and the Fauxscars), it seems the perfect time…
Ender’s Game — What to Expect from the Film Adaptation
By Wesley Sharer Ender’s Game, which we recommended as part of our Summer Reading Challenge, is a 1985 science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card,…
Lauramania: A Tour of De Smet, South Dakota
By Teresa Bergen I was halfway through the tour before I realized I’d read the wrong Little House book to prepare for my trip. My…