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• “The Fear That Walks by Noonday” Response Post • Willa Cather Short Story Project

  By Chris Wolak on August 25, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson

  By Chris Wolak on August 24, 2021 • ( 3 )

  

  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 ›

• “The Fear That Walks by the Noonday” August Reminder • Willa Cather Short Story Project

  By Chris Wolak on August 11, 2021 • ( 5 )

  

  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 ›

• Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara

  By Chris Wolak on August 3, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  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 ›

• “The Clemency of the Court” Response Post • Willa Cather Short Story Project

  By Chris Wolak on July 28, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• “The Clemency of the Court” • July 2021 Reminder • Willa Cather Short Story Project

  By Chris Wolak on July 14, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  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 ›

• The Willa Cather Book Club is Back!

  By Chris Wolak on July 7, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  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 ›

• “The Elopement of Allen Poole” Response Post • Willa Cather Short Story Project

  By Chris Wolak on June 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• 2021 #BigBookSummer Challenge

  By Chris Wolak on June 21, 2021 • ( 5 )

  

  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 ›

• “The Elopement of Allen Poole” • June 2021 Reminder • Willa Cather Short Story Project

  By Chris Wolak on June 9, 2021 • ( 3 )

  

  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 ›

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