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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
“The Conversion of Sum Loo” has a surprising twist ending. I wasn’t expecting Sum Loo to take matters into her own hands. The last scene is so vivid: The image at the top of this post is the header for… Read More ›