Category: Literature

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/08/friday-poem-312.html Traveler, your footprints are the only road, nothing else. Traveler, there is no road; you make your own path as you walk. As you walk, you make your own…

Southern Comforter The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells By Sarah Churchwell Head of Zeus 458pp £27.99 order from our bookshop The night before…

Withdrawn and prejudiced, the poet is hard to warm to – but Robert Crawford’s new biography shows how Eliot’s second marriage transformed his life. It is impossible not to be…

Maybe it’s time for you to go………… suggests the manager in a voice so levelit’s obviously an order. He’s staringat a man he should never have hired……………….. in the first…

https://salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/376-nabokov-and-balthus By Jeffrey MeyersI   Despite their idiosyncratic characters, the close contemporaries Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) and Balthazar (Balthus) Klossowski (1908-2001) had a surprisingly similar background, life, character, art and career. In…

Mary Norris in The New Yorker: Among the many books about punctuation, precious few are devoted to a single mark. There’s “On the Dot,” by the Brothers Humez, which celebrates…

As the winter began to melt away, there were patches of snow still on the ground as we walked to school. The earth had a wonderful smell to it, with…

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/03/what-is-stuttering.html Amy Reardon at The Believer: No clear genetic origin has been found for stuttering, and neither have emotional origins like trauma been ruled out. Still there is no cure.…

https://anopenletterpouritout.quora.com/An-open-letter-to-all-the-people-who-want-to-write-but-feel-that-they-aren-t-good-at-writing-Hellooo-there-Swat-away An open letter to all the people who want to write but feel that they aren’t good at writing: Hellooo there! Swat away that Self-doubt fly buzzing in your…