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In Love with Nathaniel Hawthorne by Stephanie Brown
In college I developed a crush on Nathaniel Hawthorne. I not only liked his books, I liked his looks, too, at least as he appeared in a painting at the Essex Institute in Salem,…
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“An atmosphere of dread. . .”
My friend S. subscribes to the London Review of Books for the personals, which are superior not only to those in American journals but also to the other ads on the page ("Memoir Writing…
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Happy Birthday, Dick Rodgers — and Laura Orem!
Once in a blue moon a composer turns up who can celebrate the joys of Manhattan, turn a slaughter on tenth avenue into a stunning ballet, salute a beautiful morning in an Oklahoma of…
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Behind the Orange Curtain by Stephanie Brown
"Nothing human is foreign to me" and that's because I live in Orange County, California. I live behind the orange curtain, as it goes in an old local joke, home of The Virgin Connie…
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The Coming of the End of the Book by Stephanie Brown
In graduate school for library science my favorite class covered the history of printing and publishing. We read a book called The Coming of the Book by Febvre and Martin. "The coming of the…
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Stephanie Brown, Guest Bloggers June 27 – July 3
This week we welcome Stephanie Brown as our guest blogger. Stephanie is the author of two collections of poetry, Domestic Interior (University of Pittsburgh, 2008) and Allegory of the Supermarket (University of Georgia, 1999).…
