By Michael Von George When I think of bears, and of course being from New England, the first thing to come to mind is what to do when confronted with these wild creatures. If it’s brown, lay down. If it’s black, fight back. A fun little rhyme that I have tucked away in the back […]
From the moment I discovered Zadie Smith, was the moment I was drawn to her writing style. With multiple collections of essays, memoirs, and novels, her writing style is very attractive and the way she pulls from her own personal experiences to make her writing more intense, more relatable. In a collection of Smith’s essays, …
Le Guin’s presence, as it has been presented and evolved over the course of her essays, is one of the cartographer. It happened on a whim, me finding a parent’s old paperback copy of The Lathe of Heaven. When I opened the pages of thar book, the following seeds were planted in my mind’s […]
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Every once in a blue moon you run into authors that really jab you with an arrow right through the heart and help you fall in love with writing. These men at first make you feel like you were hit with an arrow of death, and that there’s no possible way you could ever write […]
“If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what
An analysis of Joyce Carol Oates’s essays to define her idea of the essay.
{Note #1: Yes, the author is dead.} It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, but the pieces become rather excitable. You will be starting with the Robert Frost section. {Note #2: The book containing the famed poem “Road Not Taken” has escaped the shelf again. Please catch and return it.} Within […]
The life and legacy of Maya Angelou Memoirist. Activist. Poet. Maya Angelou, full name Marguerite Annie Johnson, was a true force to be reckoned with.Throughout her 86 years of life, she wrote seven autobiographies, three books full of essays, a handful of books, while also doing work in theater, cinema, and television. I know Why… Continue reading “Know Better, Do Better”
The essay is, itself, a very interesting thing. Interesting in the fact that closer examination…
Cultivating a public thinking presence in the literary essay offers a pathway from writing for college classes to other forms and venues beyond school.