February 21, 2018
Tuesday’s NY Times had an article with this bracing title: “School Shootings Put Teachers in New Role as Human Shields.” When I got into this profession, my parents worried about what they thought were its limited job prospects and low salaries. In those tense conversations, none of us factored in the prospect of a premeditated […]
February 11, 2018
Kevin Barry is, as Roddy Doyle (author most famously of The Commitments) claims, “unique, a one-man school. His work is hilarious.” In Ireland, Kevin is both a popular and an award-winning author, of short stories, of novels, and most recently of a play, Autumn Royal. For the last three years, he and his partner Olivia […]
February 8, 2018
Now in the interest of full disclosure, I should say that… technically and professionally… Drew is a professor of wildlife ecology at Clemson University. However, I have read Drew Lanham’s memoir, The Home Place, and I know, as a result, that his writing—even his thinking—is threaded with poetry. Consider these lines from The Home Place: […]
