I just read one of those books everybody reads in high school. Since I can remember being a reader and making reading lists, Steppenwolf has been on my radar; many people in several different places and contexts had recommended the book to me, and I can’t really say why it took me so long toContinue reading “The Newness of Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf”
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“Mad, bad and dangerous”: Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley’s Lives
Badass.
“The World Was Hers For The Reading”: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
In 1943, Betty Smith published what would become her most famous work and one of the most representative pieces of American literature. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn* was an instant hit, at the time being only surpassed by Gone With the Wind * in sales. The novel narrates the life of Francie Nolan and herContinue reading ““The World Was Hers For The Reading”: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
“Trouble with mice is you always kill’em”: Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men
Trouble in the ranch.
An Inbred Wanderlust: Finding North by George Michelsen Foy
“«Where» is the primal question, rather than «when», «how», or «who»”.
