Ken Burns’ Hemingway documentary is sure to generate new readers and cause old readers to give him a second look. The reader’s age can affect whether in his estimation the writer is a great novelist or just a great stylist of the simple declarative sentence.
Even before I started school, I loved reading – in school I was enthusiastic about every writing assignment. And the library was my temple of learning.
Why did I write my verse-novel about Margaret Fuller? Lots of reasons, and mostly because I have felt divorced from my native country just as she often did.
Every year when the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature is announced, I like to read the recipient’s work and decide if I concur with the choice.
It’s New Years Eve, and around the world people are celebrating. But what am I doing? I’m writing about how I feel about the year just ended.