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Literary Limericks!
Do you like limericks? Yes? Then have a look here. Interesting Literature, wich is a fun site, filled with literary …Continue reading →
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Unexpected Alices
The original 1923 cover by Zalshupin for Anya in Wonderland, young Nabokov’s Russian not-quite-translation from Lewis Carroll, with changed names …Continue reading →
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The PolyglOwl and the Pussyglot
Because the next Ad Alta Voce meeting will be all about literary cats, I was hunting through the Net for …Continue reading →
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The Iridescence of Vowels
Myla Goldberg’s Bee Season I liked mostly for its use of the sound of language in imagery and as a …Continue reading →
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Reading after the tracheitis
So in the end I went to the festival. Not Thursday – I really wasn’t fit to read – but …Continue reading →
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On Entering Books (or Hesitating on the Threshold)
“Imagine you can spend a day inside a book,” was the prompt – one of those things going around on …Continue reading →
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Charlotte, the Troublesome Teen
They’ve arrived to me in the most roundabout of ways. They’ve heard I “know about the Brontës” – which is …Continue reading →
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And no lemon, please…
I like my tea with milk. I drink a good deal of it – five, six big cups a day …Continue reading →
View ArticleOf Snowfalls and Playwrights
Here I am, dreaming of a White Christmas – and not likely to have one, it seems, except for the …Continue reading →
View ArticleVoices and Riddles
Whether it’s games of Twenty Questions, awkward conversation, or other reasons, now and then one will inevitably get asked: what’s …Continue reading →
View ArticleThe Tale of the Trunk-Hose
Once upon a time, I was in church, attending a funeral. I may as well confess beforehand that I’m not …Continue reading →
View ArticleThe Stage-Eye
So I was asked to read a manuscript, with an eye to a possible stage adaptation. It happened in that …Continue reading →
View ArticleOnce a Spy…
Once upon a time, I contacted this American writer, asking about his play featuring Kit Marlowe – published but impossible …Continue reading →
View ArticleBernard Malamud and the Lost Quote
I confess: I’ve never read anything by Bernard Malamud. It’s very possible that I’ll correct this state of things in …Continue reading →
View ArticleA Story of Storied Pinochle
Apart from or the Erasmus Year in Cardiff, my University years were spent in one of the smaller colleges in …Continue reading →
View ArticleWith a spoonful of poetry…
We have this ongoing disagreement, my friend Milla and I. A friendly disagreement, mind – but still. It is all …Continue reading →
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