Yeah, I’m being serious. Human Acts by Han Kang blew me away. Mind-blasting stuff here.
Or is it? Yeah it probably is. [1]
Well actually it’s up for debate, but I’ll say that it’s one of my favorite books and one which has survived my own kaleidoscopic lens of the past decade. This reaches far into the…
Lionel Shriver: A heart so White
Shriver Lionel’s most recent essay had me thinking: “A heart so white.” No, this hints at nothing racist on my part. Simply, I thought her a coward. One who represents much of the older generation that sits on the current throne—to include the literary one. [1]
Another day, another literary Prize. I think I’ll just say that since I can think of many great writers in the past century who…
I wrote this for First Light, a celebration of Alan Garner, brought together by Erica Wagner and the good people at Unbound. It was an honour to be invited to contribute — and, as you’ll see from the cover, astonishing company in which to find myself. Since most of us…
Dear Miss Nelle Harper Lee,
You are beautiful, and you are still a saving grace to many people. People you knew, people you didn’t, people who cried onto a page crinkling the paper. I know you, and I believe you knew of me, of the lives you changed.
If I haven’t already said that I now do an English degree: I am studying for an English degree. Someone said to me the other day that they were torn between history and English but eventually decided that with English they didn’t really see the point. ‘What is the point?’ they asked. ‘That…
We talked about in the email. The idea we could create a menu of text choices.
For my children’s literature class getting involved in #walkmyworld they are going to look at where they have been, where they are, and where they are going through fables, stories, bios, and myths.