“In the fight between you and the world, back the world.” ~ Franz Kafka Elderly sisters, Ruth Wisler and Eva Hoffe, might want to take Kafka's warning to heart. For years, the siblings have had a secret. Their mother had been a secretary for Max Brod. Brod had been Kafka's publisher as well as a…
Perhaps June 16th snuck up on you. You have been going about your day unaware...but you notice something is definitely...off. It seems that wherever you go, people are bellowing what appears to be stream-of-consciousness ranting, slapping one another on the back, and usually hoisting a Guinness aloft. Well, at least that's what happens to ME…
Ahhh...summer. Time to catch up on some reading, but so many choices. Here are some suggestions to sure please every reading taste: Memoir One More Theory About Happiness by Paul Guest When Paul Guest was twelve years old, he broke his neck in a horrific accident on a bicycle. The author takes the reader from…
"Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow," reads a quote on a monument dedicated to Mark Twain. This year, readers finally get a bridge to that starlit strip of history. Twain, in a handwritten note that accompanied his 5,000 page unedited autobiographical manuscript, requested that his memoirs…
I really like your...name. According to the Social Security Administration, the Top Baby Names for 2009 included two names that are familiar to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide: Isabella and Jacob. Isabella, or "Bella," of course, is the name of the protagonist in Stephenie Meyer's internationally best-selling Twilight series. Jacob…
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Lucille Clifton and Robert Frost
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For scholars, there is no bigger coup than finding new information that offers insight to a writer's processes, character construction, or plot development. Even if one is working with a lesser known writer, there is joy in discovery. To find previously unknown information for an author as popular and extensively researched as William Faulkner is akin to finding a gem…
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