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What are you reading? I read a lot. Sometimes, it goes with the job. Gotta keep sharp. Sometimes, what I read is a product of curiosity. Since my job is a mix of teaching various levels of students, fiction sand poetry writing, and writing speeches, this covers a lot of territory. Some American classic one […]
The Sot-Weed Factor In the last years of the Seventeenth Century there was to be found among the fops and fools of the London coffee-houses one rangy, gangling flitch called Ebenezer Cooke, more ambitious than talented, and yet more talented than prudent, who, like his friends-in-folly, all of whom were supposed to be educating at […]
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the […]
The Catcher in the Rye ‘If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I […]
“Take a seat, school’s back in session. Here’s John E. McIntyre’s “trigger warning” to new students at his editing class at Loyola University Maryland.” John E. McIntyre’s trigger warning This is a fun, yet honest look at how one editing professor considers his journalism class. I agree. Meanwhile, see [amazon_textlink asin=’1541672380′ text=’The Associated Press Stylebook […]
I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. —Saul Bellow, [amazon_textlink asin=’0143039571′ text=’The Adventures of Augie March’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’literaturetutor-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’13174165-b9f4-11e8-8f46-f956dfcdabd2′] (1953)
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children’s games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. — G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. ― Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary, his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style […]
But you know, Matilda, you cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames. For me, […]