Friday, July 3, 2020

An Interview with Smarty Pants podcast of The American Scholar

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The Laughing Maid by Julius LeBlanc Stewart For the last year and a half I've been hosting a podcast produced by The American Scholar ma...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Im moving!

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This book blog is moving over to The Washington Independent Review of Books as a regular column.  I also continue to review books for them...
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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

on reading lara vapnyar's divide me by zero

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"Lack of love wasn't only empty space. " What's love MATH got to do with it? According to Lara Vapnyar in Divi...
Friday, December 27, 2019

out walking the parapet: all my puny sorrows by miriam toews

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N When I was a young mother, living in Caracas Venezuela, my in-laws came to visit.  We had a penthouse apartment which overloo...
Saturday, December 7, 2019

winesburg ohio - characters of a bygone community - VIDEO

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William Faulkner called Sherwood Anderson "the father of my whole generation of writers." So why have I had Winesburg Ohio by ...
Monday, November 25, 2019

toppled statues of ourselves - on reading john banville's the sea

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What if being yourself means being a less interesting, less moral, less ethical and less sympathetic person than you'd prefer to be.  ...
Monday, November 18, 2019

character is fate in the mayor of casterbridge

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An impetuous, headstrong man doubles down on his worst decisions.  By the time he regrets it,  it's much too late, so he makes up for...