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Law and Letters (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
By the time my insomniac self gets to bed after reading half of a novel and then wakes up sometime in the mid-morning, there should be comments. Perhaps that will inspire me to write something. I got nothin' right now. Choose the topic of the next post: 1) Book review (probably Willa Cather). 2) Legal stuff (no idea what really, but that's a relatively broad topic and I seem to no longer have a legal...
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Curbed (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
"John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Harvey Keitel, Bette Midler, Faye Dunaway, Jack Lemmon, Signoury Weaver, Christopher Reeve, Lauren Bacall, Sid Viscous, Vin Deisel, and Sarah Jessica Parker... Not to mention writers Willa Cather, and John Dos Passos--who lived at #11...
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John Baker's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
In The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather draws attention to Alexandre Dumas, père’s claim that in order to make a drama, he needed only four walls and one passion. In context, Dumas’ was comparing his own method with that of Victor Hugo: Hugo was lyric and theatrical; I was dramatic. Hugo required for his effects the [...]
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Testosterhome (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
Weekly column “I shall not die of a cold, I shall die of having lived.” – Willa Cather Paul and I took our boys to a wake recently, a celebration of the life of a dear friend’s father. The decision to bring the boys started out rather practically – they’re no longer so young that they need to stay home, but they are still too young to stay home alone. When we were wading through whether or not the...
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BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
Photo by szlea Time for another visit to the literary United States! This week we are embracing the great state of Nebraska, and I have chosen Willa Cather’s My Antonia. The first time I read this novel I couldn't help but compare it to the adult vision of Little House on the Prairie. Cather’s love for [...]
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University of Nebraska Press (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Alex Kava: B & E William Kloefkorn: C & G Willa Cather: A & F Mari Sandoz: D & H
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ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
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ArtStrokes -- Tracy Wall's Art Blog (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
While in the middle of painting the flower series (see March/April posts), I felt compelled to start painting landscapes again. I haven't for almost a year now, and I’m feeling the need to get back to the land. (My, I’m beginning to sound like Willa Cather.) As I paint more, I begin to realize [...]
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Word Wise (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
In 1986 Hamilton, Ohio, changed its name to Hamilton! Ohio. Aside from its total weirdness (yes, Hamiltonians, while no doubt you're lovely people, it is weird and it screws up comma placement and according to reports it cost $35,000 of...
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Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Republic (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
Great cry and little wool, as the Devil said when he sheared the sow, to quote a Gaelic proverb; the reaction to reading a much-praised, by an old friend whose taste and judgement I trust, work by Willa Cather, part of my on-going exploration of American literature. My Ántonia was all right, I suppose, but fell a long way short of the praise heaped upon it; Laura Ingalls Wilder for grown-ups. Sufficiently...
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Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
B orn today: Robert Bailey Thomas, Farmer's Almanac founder, Grafton, Mass., 1766; The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1800; Anthony Trollope, novelist, London, 1815; Elizabeth Goude, novelist, Wells, Somersetshire, 1900; Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist, critic, Guthrie, Ky., 1905; Stanley J. Kauffmann, critic, editor, New York City, 1916; Sue Grafton, mystery novelist, Louisville, Ky., 1940;...
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University of Nebraska Press (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
Fans of Willa Cather should spend a little time or perhaps a lot of time perusing the Willa Cather Archive (http://cather.unl.edu), a site over ten years in the making and supported by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities...
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PlayBill (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Scott Schwartz's My Antonia, with Stephen Schwartz Underscoring, to Play RubiconThe Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, CA, will present the Southern California premiere of Scott Schwartz's My Antonia, an adaptation of Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.Directed by the playwright, the production is scheduled to begin previews May 8, open May 10 and run through June 1. The cast will feature...
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Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
At one point in Willa Cather’s novel, My Ántonia, her narrator eager to flee his small-town Nebraska home reflects on his fellows and almost seems to wish he could be like they, content in that rural environment. But, he is ever eager to escape to the world beyond. Fascinated in his childhood by the exotic eponymous [...]
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Newmark's Door (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
"They mean that you can be a brilliant young scholar, from a top program, but if you're an expert in Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald, or Malamud, Bellow and Roth, or Gaddis, Pynchon and DeLillo, or all of them plus Dreiser,...
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