“A Night at Greenway Court” is our story this month for the Willa Cather Short Story Project. In “A Night at Greenway Court,” Cather returns to Northern Virginia, the land of her birth. This short piece of historical fiction was… Read More ›
Before we jump into this month’s story, I want to let those of you in Connecticut know that the quarterly Willa Cather Book Group will meet again in October.What: Alexander’s Bridge (1912)When: Thursday, October 21, 2021, at 1 pmWhere: The… Read More ›
Reminder! “On the Divide” is our story this month for the Willa Cather Short Story Project. You can read the story at the Willa Cather Archive: https://cather.unl.edu/writings/shortfiction/ss026 Apologies for being a day late with this reminder. The new semester started… Read More ›
Today is the first day of the new semester for me, so here’s my, “What I did on my summer vacation” post. In June, I finally went to visit my mom in Illinois. We hadn’t seen each other since November… Read More ›
Football season is upon us here in the U.S. and what great timing to read “The Fear That Walks by Noonday.” As I wrote in the reminder post for this story, Cather’s friend Dorothy Canfield Fisher came up with the… Read More ›
I haven’t been this excited about a mystery series since I got into Louise Penny’s Chief Inspector Gamache series in 2011. Thanks to publisher William Morrow for sending the Book Cougars a review copy of Alice Henderson’s new novel, A… Read More ›
This month’s story for the Willa Cather Short Story Project is “The Fear That Walks by the Noonday.” This story appeared in The Sombrero, an 1895 University of Nebraska year book. You can read the story on the Willa Cather… Read More ›
I devoured Naomi Hirahara’s new historical mystery, Clark and Division. It’s set in 1944 Chicago and is about a young Japanese-American woman trying to figure out what happened to her older sister. Twenty-year-old Aki Ito is a Nisei, a second… Read More ›
Earlier today I took a walk in Chatfield Hollow State Park in Killingworth, Connecticut. Afterward, I sat on the beach at Schreeder Pond and re-read “The Clemency of the Court.” It was a lovely summer day. Blue skies were enhanced… Read More ›
Our Willa Cather story for July is “The Clemency of the Court,” which takes us back to the Great Plains. It appeared in the October 26, 1893 issue of The Hesperian. In the June 8, 1893 issue of The Hesperian,… Read More ›