In this latest memoir installment, I look at the friendships in my life that revolved around literature.
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My Friendships Grounded in Literature
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged C.S. Lewis, Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Hesse, In Search of Lost Time, Jane Austen, Leaps of Faith, Marcel Proust, Northanger Abbey, Paul Hunter, Siddhartha, Silver Chair, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Comments closed
The Hardy Boys Do Not Age Well
I loved the Hardy Boys when I was growing up. Now I find them unreadable.
Sonia Sotomayor and Nancy Drew
This week, with Sonia Sotomayor still in the news (although the firestorm that greeted her nomination has gone into temporary remission), I thought I’d devote my posts to supreme court justices and literature. This was inspired in part by an excellent New York Times article over the weekend on Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas (in which […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Carolyn Keene, children's classics, Clarence Thomas, detective fiction, Edward Stratemeyer, Franklin Dixon, Hillary Clinton, Issac Asimov, John Roberts, Laura Bush, Meghan O'Rourke, Nancy Drew, Native Son, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Samuel Delaney, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sonia Sotomayor Comments closed