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…
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The Hotel Monteleone: New Orleans Literary Landmark
By Kelsey A. Liebenson-Morse Everybody is nothing until you love them. –Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo The Hotel Chelsea in New York is a literary…
A Visit to Harper Lee’s Monroeville
By Caroline Kerr Taylor It was a blistering hot and muggy August day when I arrived in Monroeville, Alabama. After parking on the town square…
A Good Writer Is Hard To Find: The Search For Flannery O’Connor
by Linda McGovern To try and get more from a writer than what you see on the page, depends on the writer and their ability…
Poe’s Philadelphia Experience
By the scene is a vacant old house in the center of a bustling city. A cold chill follows you in before you can even shut the heavy door. There are no…
Thomas Wolfe: Look Homeward Angel
In the novel, Look Homeward Angel, Thomas Wolfe described the stone statue of an angel, which stood for years on the porch of his father”s…