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 ›
This is just a quick note to let you know that the Willa Cather Book Club is stepping back into action after our long pandemic hiatus. We’ll be discussing Lucy Gayheart on July 15th in South Windsor, CT. Some facts… Read More ›
Have you had a chance to read “The Elopement of Allen Poole” yet? I enjoyed this story very much, perhaps because it includes some classic Cather landscape descriptions, even if they are at times a bit more conventional and wordy… Read More ›
It’s the 10th anniversary of my friend Sue’s Big Book Summer Challenge! The gist of this challenge is to read a book or books that are over 400 pages long between Memorial Day and Labor Day (May 28 – September… Read More ›
Our story this month for the Willa Cather Short Story Project is “The Elopement of Allen Poole” which appeared in The Hesperian on April 15, 1893. Here’s the link to the full story at the Willa Cather Archive: https://cather.unl.edu/writings/shortfiction/ss023 You… Read More ›
One of my favorite hashtags on Instagram is Marbled Monday (#marbledmonday). Organizations and individuals post gorgeous photos of books with marbled paper. Some examples are stunning in their color combinations and complexity while others are more subtle and simple. While… Read More ›
It’s that time of the year again, folks! The 66th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference is June 3-5, 2021. Online so you can attend from anywhere The conference is ONLINE again this year via an app called Whova. (There are… Read More ›
Did you know that a huge chain was stretched across the Hudson River to help win the Revolutionary War? My first semester of library school ended last week. I had grand designs of writing a weekly blog post about something… Read More ›