I Noticed Seagulls: Birds and Breast Cancer
I can almost always see seagulls flying overhead. They fly over my house, sometimes so high that I can barely …
Tag Archives: Authors
Reading Maile Meloy
I first read Maile Meloy’s work through a short story in an anthology I had purchased during my Master’s program. …
A Memoir of Being a Librarian with Tourette’s
I need to come right out and say that I’m biased about this book. I am friends with the author, …
A Week of Non-Fiction: The Second Installment
Today is the second installment of my week of highlighting non-fiction books that I’ve read and enjoyed, and that I …
John Steinbeck’s Pastures in Heaven
My Internet has been down for two days. Two days! It seemed like we would die. I could only check …
Homage to Shel Silverstein
During Thanksgiving, we played a game in which one person had the name of a famous person stuck to his …
An American Masterpiece: Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner’s (1909-1993) masterpiece Angle of Repose (1971; Pulitzer 1972) explores the marriage relationships of Susan and Oliver Ward and …
A Literature of Their Own: Nigeria’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I found myself thrilled and enthralled with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED talk. She spoke about models in literature, and because …
William Faulkner’s Novels are Intimidating
In my notes on William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! (1936), I have written, “It’s okay to use a period once in …
There Is a Bicycle Named Hepzibah
I had to finish reading The House of The Seven Gables (1851) by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) so I …
