'Reynard the Fox' as retold by Anne Louise Avery is a delight to read and an example of how our oldest tales are still some of the best ones around.
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Book Review: ‘Grief Cottage’ by Gail Godwin
'Grief Cottage' by Gail Godwin is a superbly told tale weaving grief, longing, understanding, and purpose inside an unsolved disappearance. A search for a missing boy's true identity helps lead other to find their own.
Read More »Tired of March Madness? How about some Meet-Cute?
You’ve undoubtedly heard about “March Madness,” a name that retailers often use for promotional purposes and as a ruse to boost wilted sales as the clock springs forward. But how familiar are you with “Meet Cute?”
Read More »Book Review: ‘My Katherine Mansfield Project’ by Kirsty Gunn
Like Mansfield who knew that loveliness may quickly shift into the chaos of a dark familiar plunge into the abyss, so too does Gunn recognize that any inviolate home anywhere is “just beyond” her “reach.”
Read More »The 90th Anniversary of ‘The Great Gatsby’
"My characters are all Scott Fitzgerald. Even the feminine characters," the complex author reckoned.
Read More »Faulkner Society’s Words and Music Literary Feast in New Orleans
The joy of this "feast" is that one has the opportunity to see the beauties of New Orleans because the events are held in various venues, all incomparable because they are centered in and around the unique French Quarter.
Read More »F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘s Fiction and Self-Creation
Ernest Hemingway referred to Fitzgerald as "the great tragedy of talent in our bloody generation."
Read More »Why All College Students Should Be English Majors
All colleges and universities should mandate that every student declare a dual major – English and something else of their choice.
Read More »Interview: R. Barri Flowers, Author of Before He Kills Again
R. Barri Flowers is an award winning criminologist and internationally bestselling author of more than sixty books.
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