Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Shamrocks to wish everyone a very happy St. Patrick’s Day!
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On Novels and Novelists
Julianne Moore on Forging a Bond With Alzheimer’s Patients Cara Buckley reports on how Julianne Moore prepared for her role in the film of Still Alice, a performance that won her an Oscar for best actress. Moore played Alice Howland, a Harvard cognifive psychologist with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. (Early-onset Alzheimer’s is defined as onset before
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‘Lila’ Honored as Top Fiction by National Book Critics Circle – NYTimes.com
Marilynne Robinson won the National Book Critics Circle Award on Thursday for her novel “Lila,” the final book in her trilogy set in the fictional Gilead, Iowa. . . . David Brion Davis won the nonfiction award for “The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation,” the third volume of his trilogy and the
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Harper Lee’s Condition Debated by Friends, Fans and Now State of Alabama – NYTimes.com
Now the State of Alabama has been drawn into the debate. Responding to at least one complaint of potential elder abuse related to the publication of “Watchman,” investigators interviewed Ms. Lee last month at the assisted living facility where she resides. They have also interviewed employees at the facility, called the Meadows, as well as
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Reading in Flow
Related Posts: Flow Getting Lost in a Good Book: Scientific Research on Reading Flow and the Reading Process If you’ve ever had the experience of getting lost in a good book, you’ve experienced flow. Csikszentmihalyi’s general characteristics of flow describe this experience. The key to flow is complete absorption in an activity. For readers, the
On Reading
Being a Better Online Reader Maria Konnikova collects evidence and hypotheses about how the shift from print to online texts has changed the experience of reading. She begins with reference to Maryanne Wolf, whose book Proust and the Squid examines the history of the science and development of the reading brain from antiquity to the
Blog a Day Challenge: February Report
January was all about convincing myself that I could indeed find something to write about and produce a blog post every day. In February I turned my gaze outward and looked at other blogs and bloggers instead of just my blog/myself as blogger. I found a number of blogs that I learned a lot from.
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WordPress Writing 201: Poetry Class, Day 10
It’s the final day of this course, Day 10, which offers the following challenges: Prompt: future Form: sonnet Device: chiasmus Sonnet A sonnet is normally composed of 14 lines of verse. There are several ways you can split your sonnet into stanzas (if you wish to), though the most common ones are 8–6 and 4–4–3–3.
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WordPress Writing 201: Poetry Class, Day 9
Right up front, let me admit that today, Day 9, is the one day I allowed myself to bail on, as I’ll explain in the section labeled Writing Process below. Today’s parameters are: Prompt: landscape Form: found poetry Device: enumeratio Found Poetry Like a blackmail letter in a sordid crime novel, a found poem is
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WordPress Writing 201: Poetry Class, Day 8
Today’s Day 8 assignment involves: Prompt: drawer Form: ode Device: apostrophe Ode An ode is a laudatory poem celebrating a person, an object, a place, etc. It can come in any form these days, having shed its ancient (and much stricter) formal requirements. At their best, odes are both a compelling portrait of something and
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