What books has Sandra Cisneros written? What types of books did Virginia Woolf write? Where did Bronte get the name Wuthering Heights? In?Jane Eyre, how far has Bronte make use of her personal life for the material of this novel?
What are some books George Eliot wrote? In Alias Grace, what are some of the metaphors that Atwood uses? What is Poetry by Marianne Moore about? What kind of poetry did Emily Dickinson write? What is Sylvia Plath's writing style?
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”J. D. SALINGER, THE CATCHER IN...
Mary Shelley: In 1812 at the age of 15, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin eloped with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to France. Following the suicide of Shelley's wife in 1816, Mary and Percy married and began a family overseas and, while on a vacation, wrote the novelFrankenstein: Or the Modern Prom...
Anne (37:06):The next is Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell, who is the author of books we've discussed on this podcast, including Assassination Vacation. And Vowell has a very distinctive style that is really all her own. It's like smart alek-y, witty, um, surprising and strange hist...
(Sandra Cisneros, Gloria Anzaldúa) and early third-wave American femi-nism. The discrepant awareness of Burgos-Debray, however, lay neither in pub-lishing nor in the U.S. or French literary markets. She was, as one learns uponreading the book’s history, a harried gatekeeper, for whom ...
The Texas Supreme Court has nine justices. Three of those are up for election in 2024. Republicans currently hold all the seats. Texas Supreme Court Place 2 Democrat: D DaSean Jones, Randy Sarosdy Republican: Jimmy Blacklock (Incumbent) ...
Today’s guest is Cori Jara, a case worker in Eureka CA. She’s a lifelong reader, who’s dad read her books likeLord of the Ringsas a child, and who loved the written word so much she became a creative writing major. But after college books lost their luster for Cori for a while...
–Premiering on Netflix:“Absurd Planet,”“Circus of Books,”“The Plagues of Breslau,”“The Silence of the Swamp,”“The Willoughbys,”“Win the Wilderness” –Premiering on Nat Geo:“Born Wild: The Next Generation,”“Jane Goodall: The Hope” –Premiering on BBC America:“She Walks Wit...
–Premiering on Netflix:“Absurd Planet,”“Circus of Books,”“The Plagues of Breslau,”“The Silence of the Swamp,”“The Willoughbys,”“Win the Wilderness” –Premiering on Nat Geo:“Born Wild: The Next Generation,”“Jane Goodall: The Hope”...