Today is the birthday of the inimitable Colleen J. McElroy. In celebration I refer you to my History Link article about Colleen, and to her essay in English Matters (Spring 2011) about post-retirement travels. And here’s a poem from her latest book, Here I Throw Down My Heart (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2012): Crossing the Rubicon at Seventy we do […]
I found this article at Book Riot. Having read all of these books helps. The Olivia costume is my fave. Lisbeth Salander though? Hard to resist.
One of the reasons I blog is so that I can share with you what I’ve been reading. And ever since I spent a month (last April) blogging about poetry I love, I have been attracting poetry — people pass along their favorite books, books of poetry just turn up, willy nilly, and poets sign […]
“I must be a mermaid … I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” ― Anaïs Nin Someone I know recently used that term, “shallow,” to describe a man I adored. Revered. Now long deceased, he won’t care what anyone calls him. True, he never read Nietzsche, or Nin for that matter, […]