..since I’ve written much poetry.Writing poetry is something I tend to do in the grip of strong emotion – and god knows I’m there now – but my skills are…Continue readingIt’s literally been years…
I was weaned on poetry. My grandfather was a poet and he was reading me his sonnets before I was fully five years old. On one memorable occasion, I interrupted…Continue readingHow poetry became part of my soul
“When I first arrived in LA,” Alex Heimbach writes at Bustle, “I was thrilled to discover the Library Bar. Unfortunately…the books were purely decorative… what I really wanted was a…Continue readingBooks & Booze, anyone?
Today marks the 90th anniversary of Scribner’s publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. “During my junior year of high school,” Kara Watson writes at Off the Shelf,…Continue readingTurning 90
Blejsko Lake, Alps – Photo by Karol Nienartowicz On winter holidays in the lost land of my childhood, I went with my family to this lake in the Alps at…Continue readingSkating in the Alps
Literature’s most fiendish head-scratchers For all of you out there with time on your hands and no codes to crack, The Guardian offers a selection of riddles from literature. Get…Continue readingRiddle me this!
Can you guess these classic books by their one-line spoilers? Alanna Okun asks at BuzzFeed. She gets hit by a train He never shows up The dogs die She was…Continue readingSpoiler alert!
Krystie Lee Yandoli lists 22 books at Buzzfeed that “you pretend you’ve read but actually haven’t.” The story notes a Guardian survey that suggests that most people lie and say…Continue readingDid you really read it?