Fenton on Shakespeare’s King Lear
Read Fenton’s riff on the National Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, published in Silas House and Jason Howard’s online journal Still: stilljournal.net/still-life.php...
Read Fenton’s riff on the National Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, published in Silas House and Jason Howard’s online journal Still: stilljournal.net/still-life.php...
Here's a link to my quick look at the roots of the literature of social justice, published in the excellent online magazine Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments: http://terrain.org/2014/reviews-reads/recommended-reads-literature-social-justice/ In autumn 2014 I'll be teaching a graduate craft of literature course through the University...
Remarks delivered at the Associated Writing Programs 2012 Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 3 March. Read remarks in PDF format. Life is research; thus, the memoir. Research deepens and enriches memory. I search for prompts, which in turn direct the research, which in its turn sparks memory. I take issue...
Even in loquacious, verbose English -- elegantly performed in my audio version by Simon Vance, in a translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling -- the precision of Gustave Flaubert’s French comes through. We are all searchers and Emma Bovary is the distillation of our longing. She marries...