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Author: Katherine Anne Porter Genre: Short Story Published: 1927/1992 Collection Personal Rating: 4/5 (SS) Yearly Count: 9 This short story revolves around a poor, but proud family whose female lead believes that appearances are of the utmost importance - at all costs. This was a sad story. Other than just the physical needs a family requires, it depicts the emotional struggle a mother has within herself...
Pulitzer Prize winning author Katherine Anne Porter once said Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essentially shaped for good. Remember when you where a kid and the little girl down the street would always come to your house to play, often bringing you candy or other sweet [...]
Front Porch Journal posts a video clip of Mary Gaitskill reading from work-in-progress at the Katherine Anne Porter House. A fitting locale, I think; the foxy, mercurial, ever-prevaricating Texan author would make an interesting subject for Gaitskill if she ever turned her hand to biography. (Via Jacket Copy.) Previously the Texas State literary magazine has featured [...]
Filed under: Arts and Culture , History , Stories , Mexico , United States Awhile back, I wrote a post about how Langston Hughes' train trip to Mexico to visit his father influenced his poem "A Negro Speaks of Rivers." I recently heard that Katherine Anne Porter's writing is also connected to travel to Mexico, but years before Langston made his way there. Because May 15 was Porter's birthday (She...
Today is the birthday of a famous Texas-born writer, Katherine Anne Porter. I've blogged about my meeting with her before. (See here , here , here , and here .) In at least one of those posts, I told the story of how Charlotte Laughlin took a photo of Miss Porter's coffin, which she kept in a closet in her apartment. I don't recall that I've published that photo, however, so here it is.
A nurse in Albuquerque was named the winner of a $10,000 prize for writing a letter to the editor that brought her under investigation for possible sedition.Laura Berg was recently named the winner of the PEN/Katherine Anne Porter First Amendment Award after her brush with the FBI, which was prompted by a scathing letter about the Bush administration that she wrote to New Mexico's Weekly Alibi.The...
Patrick Shawn Bagley tagged me with the meme. I'm supposed to tell you 6 random things about myself. Here goes: 1. I once had dinner with Katherine Anne Porter . 2. I'm about to leave the house and jog for 45 minutes. 3. I'm currently reading The Name of the Wind (which, by the way is really long). 4. I watch fewer than 5 TV shows regularly. 5. I do watch the Houston Astros regularly (masochism, I...
She is a psychiatric nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital who was threatened with a sedition investigation after she wrote a letter to the editor denouncing the Bush administration's bungling of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war. ... Then she received an official warning in which a Veterans Affairs investigator intoned that her letter “ potentially represents sedition .” [snip] Even then, she noted,...
The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. The Awards offer first prizes of $2,000 and publication and second prizes of $1,000 and publication, along with a trip to Tulsa to receive the Awards and take part in Nimrod Journal's annual writing conference. Entry fee. Contact: Nimrod Journal The University of Tulsa 800 S Tucker Dr Tulsa OK 74104 918-631-
The United States has issued a 41-cent stamp honoring author, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. According to a USPS press release, "Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings joins her friends Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zora Neale Hurston and a host of other literary immortals as the latest inductee into the U.S. Postal Service’s Literary Arts commemorative stamp series." Her best...
Gael Greene began her career in food even before New York was a city worthy of culinary reckoning. Finding her way onto the dining scene by way of New York Magazine, she launched her column, Insatiable Critic, and simultaneously pioneered the very notion of a foodie. From her infamous sexual encounter with Elvis and a fried egg sandwich to the imminent 21st century launch of insatiablecritic.com, Gael's...
Seeing the dramatic potential of Ellen Gilchrist's intense prose, Book-It Repertory Theatre has adapted some of her stories about Rhoda Manning for the stage. The result, "Rhoda: A Life in Stories," opens Friday night.
By the time she died aged 32, Katherine Mansfield had altered the course of English modernism, and earnt enemies all over literary London. Ali Smith salutes her awesome spirit
