Posted in American Literature, Writing & Reading on Nov 25th, 2008 No Comments »
I’m a faithless Internet surfer “visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves” of bloglust. And that is all I can say in defense of such a belated response to Lionel Shriver’s WSJ article, “Missing the Mark.” Shriver’s opening argument explains why I think a rebuttal is still worth dishing out:
Literature is not [...]
Posted in American Literature on Sep 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
During our latest national holiday, P. and a carload of friends celebrated their labor achievements by illegally crawling into the soldiers’ bunks at Valley Forge National Park. (Steeped in civic religiosity, I desperately wished to hide until the commemorative photo shoot ended.) The two inspired to hike Valley Forge’s miles of protected “wilderness” were [...]
Posted in American Literature on Sep 13th, 2008 No Comments »
I begin with a sheepish confession. For years I’ve put off reading Faulkner’s Light in August only to discover my misgivings naive. Blame it on self-inflicted exposure to Go Down, Moses in the seventh grade; I’ve avoided the 560-page Light in August since I was 13 (that’s right, its vanilla binding has been staring at [...]
