My Antonia / Heaven’s Gate / a good book
November 28, 2009
After rather miserably finishing off our look at The Waste Land this Thursday, it was good to move swiftly on to My Antonia by Willa ... [read more]
William Dean Howells 1837-1920
November 25, 2009
The Wednesday morning Keele 'Continuing and Professional Education' class today featured The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885). Hard going to read this for me, but ... [read more]
Extra-mural University courses
November 19, 2009
How long before the barbarians decide that there is no evidence of "progression" or vocational qualifications in these courses and as a consequence decide that ... [read more]
Up to Eliot
November 19, 2009
Discussion around T S Eliot today; The Waste Land, the validity of the 'elitist' criticism, his happiness, melancholy, guilt, marriages, and psychotherapy amongst other topics. ... [read more]
Cormac McCarthy
November 17, 2009
Been reading this Wall Street Journal interview a few times as it has so much entertainment in it.
Corbis Outline
Cormac McCarthy, above in 2007, drew ... [read more]