What is duende?

I found Lorca when I was a sophomore in college. I was in the theater directing program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. As a result of a project I had done related to Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
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Accidents & Opportunities

arrowsIt is a funny thing that when I read articles (as opposed to novels, etc.), I often get caught up in something that is not the actual subject of what I’m reading. If I’m reading about fish fries, I will … Read More

Little Works of Art

Ok, if one MUST be stuck in traffic at 9am on a weekday, at least there is the perq of getting to hear Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac on NPR. Many a time I’ve intended to remember to look up a … Read More

Shades of Gray

MonochromeBarsSo when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And Read More

Why Study (or read) Literature?

Prior to last semester, I had only taught upper level literature courses which provided me with students who were, for the most part, somewhat knowledgeable and somewhat appreciative of literature even if they found themselves a bit stymied by it. … Read More