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• 2019 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winners Announced

  By Chris Wolak on April 26, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  The annual Edgar Banquet of the Mystery Writers of America was held last night in New York City. It’s a black tie affair at which the Edgar Allan Poe Award winners are announced. In recent years I haven’t been following… Read More ›

• Response to The Marriage of Phædra, The Willa Cather Short Story Project

  By Chris Wolak on April 24, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  We’re on story number three of the Willa Cather Short Story Project, “The Marriage of Phædra” from Cather’s first published collection of short stories, The Troll Garden. This is another story written in the style of Henry James. As some… Read More ›

• Classics Club Spin #20: Shorties!

  By Chris Wolak on April 20, 2019 • ( 23 )

  

  It’s time for another Classics Club Spin. This is where members of the Classics Club create a list of twenty books from their main list that they’d like to read sooner rather than later. On a given date (Monday, April… Read More ›

• April Reminder! The Willa Cather Short Story Project #3: “The Marriage of Phaedra”

  By Chris Wolak on April 10, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

    Our story for April is “The Marriage of Phaedra.” This is the last of the three stories from The Troll Garden that Cather chose not to revise for inclusion in her second collection of short stories, Youth and the… Read More ›

• Willa Cather Book Club – April

  By Chris Wolak on April 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The Willa Cather Book Club will meet to discuss A Lost Lady on Thursday, April 18th from 2-3 pm at the Book Club Bookstore and More in South Windsor, CT. Description from the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition: First published in 1923, A Lost… Read More ›

• Willa Cather Short Story Project: Response to The Garden Lodge

  By Chris Wolak on March 27, 2019 • ( 6 )

  

  “The Garden Lodge” is the second story we’re reading in the Willa Cather Short Story Project. Last month’s story, “Flavia and Her Artists,” was about a woman of means who collects artists but has no artistic talent of her own… Read More ›

• Announcement: Name Change!

  By Chris Wolak on March 20, 2019 • ( 15 )

  

  Follow my blog with Bloglovin  Happy Vernal or Autumn Equinox, depending on where you are in the world! I enjoy both spring and fall, but what I love most is the changing of the seasons. Today feels like an auspicious… Read More ›

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