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 ›
Willa Cather Short Story Project
“The Elopement of Allen Poole” Response Post • Willa Cather Short Story Project
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 ›
“The Elopement of Allen Poole” • June 2021 Reminder • Willa Cather Short Story Project
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 ›
“The Conversion of Sum Loo” Response Post • Willa Cather Short Story Project
“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 ›
“The Conversion of Sum Loo” May 2021 Reminder for the Willa Cather Short Story Project
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 ›
“A Son of the Celestial” Response Post WCSSP2
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 ›
“A Son of the Celestial” Willa Cather Short Story Project • April 2021 Reminder
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 ›
“A Tale of the White Pyramid” Response Post WCSSP2
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 ›
“A Tale of the White Pyramid.” March 2021 Reminder • Willa Cather Short Story Project
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 ›
“Peter” Response Post WCSSP2
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 ›