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 ›
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“The Enchanted Bluff” Willa Cather Short Story Project Reminder July 2020
Our story for July is “The Enchanted Bluff.” We are making some serious progress on our quest to read all of Willa Cather’s short fiction. So far we’ve read seventeen stories in the four collections pictured above. Our next group… Read More ›
June 2020 Reminder for The Willa Cather Short Story Project
Our story this month is “Before Breakfast,” the final of the three stories in The Old Beauty and Others (1948). “Before Breakfast” was the last story Cather finished. She wrote it in the summer of 1944 while staying on Mt. Desert… Read More ›
May Reading List
My stack of hopefuls for May. Or, as I’ve seen others write on social media, my “May may(bes).” What’s on your reading list for May?
April 2020 Reminder for the Willa Cather Short Story Project
Willa Cather died on April 24, 1947. Our story this month is “The Old Beauty” from The Old Beauty and Others, which was published posthumously on September 13, 1948. “The Old Beauty” is the first of three short stories in… Read More ›
Response to “Old Mrs. Harris.” The Willa Cather Short Story Project
What an amazing short story! For those of you who haven’t yet read “Old Mrs. Harris,” it’s primarily about three generations of women in the Templeton family — the grandmother, Mrs. Harris; her daughter, Victoria; and her granddaughter, Vickie —… Read More ›
February 2020 Reminder: The Willa Cather Short Story Project
Our story for February is one of Cather’s most beloved stories, “Old Mrs. Harris.”
Response to “Neighbour Rosicky.” The Willa Cather Short Story Project
It was nice to meet Neighbor Rosicky. If he seems familiar to you, it might because he’s based on the real life John Pavelka, husband of Annie Pavelka, who was Cather’s inspiration for Antonia of My Antonia fame. In that… Read More ›
Reading Update #1 and A Dash of Digital Vampire
My 2020 reading is off to an excellent start. Mysteries, romance, a literary classic, outdoor adventure, and a dash of digital vampire. What I’ve Read The last book I started in 2019 was finished in 2020. This was The Hollows… Read More ›
January 2020 Reminder: The Willa Cather Short Story Project
Our last story of 2019 was the last story in Cather’s 1920 collection, Youth and the Bright Medusa. This month we kick off reading stories from Cather’s last short story collection published during her lifetime, Obscure Destinies (1932). “Neighbour Rosicky”… Read More ›