In which I explain how The Iliad saved my freshman year in high school.
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The Iliad Saved My Freshman Year
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Creative Writing and Daydreaming", "Strange Meeting", force, Homer, Richard Lattimore, Sigmund Freud, Simone Weil, war, Wilfred Owen Leave a comment
The End of the World – Robert Frost Called It
Frost and Homer applied to climate change, along with links to all my past posts on the climate crisis.
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How Homer Would Judge ICE
When ICE agents arrested people who had served them in a restaurant, they broke a taboo that goes at least as far back as Homer.
My Time at Sewanee Military Academy
The latest installment of “my life in literature” series, this one involving my high school years in a military academy.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged adolescence, Catcher in the Rye, Great Gatsby, Homer, J.D. Salinger, John Milton Comments closed
An Iranian Hostage Recalls Tolstoy
In which one of the 1980 Iranian hostages explains why “War and Peace” meant so much to him at the time.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Emma, George Eliot, Homer, Iranian hostage crisis, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Life and Fate, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Vasily Grossman, War and Peace Comments closed
Lit Packs a Powerful Punch
My book “Better Living through Lit” this past year was only one of several making the case that literature can be social dynamite.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Beloved, Ben Jonson, Better Living through Literature, book bans, Christopher Marlowe, Dangerous Fictions, Harold Bloom, Hesiod, Homer, Lyta Gold, Odyssey, Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray, Plato, Toni Morrison, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Trumpism and Penelope’s Suitors
Penelope’s suitors are like Trump and his supporters, looting the household and then calling other people lazy grifters asking for handouts.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged entitlement programs, Homer, kleptocracy, Odyssey, Trumpism, welfare programs Comments closed
Why Fiction Terrifies People
I announce my forthcoming book and contrast it with a similar book–“Dangerous Fictions”–coming out soon.
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