GUEST BLOG – Louise Dimattio
Arrived on a beautiful sunny morning in Toronto for a stimulating discussion of Henri James’ Portrait of a Lady. Our […]
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ON THE ROAD WITH ANN – Reflections on Reading Chicago
We read. We saw. We heard. We tasted. Reading Chicago. READ While our some of Chicago’s most imaginative literary witnesses
CLASSICAL TRIVIA! – Trip the light fantastic
Trip the light fantastic Meaning To dance, especially in an imaginative or ‘fantastic’ manner. Origin This apparently obscure expression
GUEST BLOG – Why on earth would Sharon Zane go back to Paris again?
Ann has asked me to write a bit about why I will be taking part in La Belle Epoque trip
GUEST BLOG – Betty Ann Jordan on Looking at Photographs with Susan Sontag
“Like a pair of binoculars with no right or wrong end, the camera makes exotic things near, intimate, and familiar
GUEST BLOG – Jimmye Hillman’s poem, penned late one night during our American Civil War trip
You sorta hadta be there to get all the references, but y’all can see what a fine poet Jimmye Hillman
TRAVEL PURSUITS — Chicago, a city of big shoulders
“Once you’ve come to be part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a
GUEST BLOG – Thomas Jones on why you should choose Buddenbrooks this July
In scope, detail, and humanity, Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks is a classic of modem literature and continues to be a model
GUEST BLOG – How Darwin Made Monkeys of Us All, by Mark Cwik
Upon first reading Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, the great 19th-century biologist Thomas Henry Huxley—later to be known
GUEST BLOG – Ghazals – erotic & spiritual, by Lisa Pasold
The ghazal is my favourite poetic form—even though it’s less familiar than the sonnet or the haiku. A sonnet gives
