In the response post for last month’s story, I mentioned we were going to switch up our reading order a bit. Our story for May was supposed to be “The Elopement of Allen Poole,” but after learning that Cather reworked… Read More ›
Last night I engaged in some risky behavior. I started a new novel at bedtime. Yes, I stayed up too late. Yes, this book is off to a great start. I relate to young Lily Hu not understanding her attraction… Read More ›
In “A Son of the Celestial” college student Willa Cather focuses her literary imagination on a Chinese immigrant in San Francisco. The result is not pretty. As I mentioned in this month’s reminder post, the late 19th century saw the… Read More ›
I am so excited to share with you that my wife Laura Thoma, had her first play published earlier this month! That’s her holding the writer’s copies of Magpie that arrived prior to release day. Magpie is the story about… Read More ›
Hi Everyone! Apologies that I’m a day late with the reminder post for our monthly Willa Cather short story and for being a bit MIA on the blog. School and spring yard work has been keeping me busy. I am… Read More ›
In “A Tale of the White Pyramid,” young Willa Cather tries her hand at historical fiction. Have you read this short story? What did you think? Egyptomania I was surprised by the Egyptian setting of a short story written by… Read More ›
Library school is keeping me super busy. After seven weeks, I finally feel like I’m in a groove and not struggling to play catch up all the time. Last week I started my internship which is part of the course,… Read More ›
This is a reminder that our story for this month is, “A Tale of the White Pyramid.” You can read it on the Willa Cather Archive here — https://cather.unl.edu/writings/shortfiction/ss021 — and also see images of the story as it appeared… Read More ›
Have you had a chance to read “Peter” by Willa Cather? As I mentioned in the reminder post for this month’s story, it was Cather’s first published story. It ran in the May 21, 1892 edition of The Mahogany Tree,… Read More ›
Some of my reading this week for library school has focused on the historical and contemporary importance of records in American life. Archives have played a significant role in building a sense of national identity and in the creation and… Read More ›