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Reading the Aeneid while Lactating
Virgil knows what he’s doing by bringing in the
Friday Links – January 26 2018
Le Guin on writing and the history of Blue.
Caedmon’s Hymn
Hearing it out loud is fascinating
Reading the Aeneid while Lactating
Virgil knows what he’s doing by bringing in the
Friday Links – January 26 2018
Le Guin on writing and the history of Blue.
Caedmon’s Hymn
Hearing it out loud is fascinating

Reading the Aeneid while Lactating

Virgil knows what he’s doing by bringing in the mother.

Friday Links – January 26 2018

Le Guin on writing and the history of Blue.

Caedmon’s Hymn

Hearing it out loud is fascinating

Mary, Queen of Angels 2017

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Featuring interviews with Phil Klay, Joshua Hren and Lee Oser, and Kay Clarity, and visual art by Neilson Carlin.

The Vindication of the Imagination

This is a guest post by Erick Allen. Erick and his wife Kathy live in the southern Appalachian mountains. Erick teaches English at Millennium Charter Academy in Mt. Airy, NC.   As Dante enters the ninth circle of the Inferno, the poet perceives what he thinks are the high towers of a … [Read More...]

Friday Links – January 19 2018

Could Catholics and Protestants by reconciled by beauty? That's the question raised by B.D. McClay of Commonweal in her review of Bach and the Heavenly Choir by Johannes Rüber: "The novel itself is constructed around a fairly improbable scenario: What if a pope were to canonize Bach, or try to? The … [Read More...]

Black Bottle Man

Black Bottle Man by Craig Russell Great Plains Teen Fiction, 2010; 176 pages Gold Medal, Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, Young Adult Fantasy/ Sci-Fi, 2011 What do you do when your two childless aunts sell their souls to become pregnant? According to Black Bottle Man, you cut a deal with the … [Read More...]

What We Can Learn from Libraries

Last week Daniel Mitsui posted photos of two bookshelves without commentary on Facebook. My zoomed-in perusal of the volumes revealed a few items sparking jealousy (Émile Mâle's two volumes on Religious Art in France, the Très Riches Heures), and others fanning the flames of curiosity (Graphic … [Read More...]

Friday Links – January 12 2018

American poet and scholar Helen Pinkerton passed away just before the new year. James Matthew Wilson writes about her legacy: “Over six decades, Pinkerton composed a slender body of austere, philosophical lyrics and probing historical narrative poems that have earned a permanent place in our … [Read More...]

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“Paradise with a Serpent:” An Interview with Carlos Eire

Bernardo Aparicio García and Katy Carl

Carlos Eire is now a distinguished history professor at Yale University, but in 1959 he was an eight-year-old boy living in Havana who went by the name of Carlos Nieto. His 2003 memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana, winner of the National Book Award, tells the story of that transformation. I first heard of Eire shortly after graduating from college in 2005, when I was thinking of pursuing graduate studies in history. At that time I was intrigued by the title of his memoir—it reminded me of my own snow-deprived childhood in Colombia. I almost picked up the book a year or two later when it was chosen as the featured title for the One Book, One Philadelphia reading project, but other work and other reading prevented me from getting around to it until this spring. [Read More…]

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