Stephanie Kallos

Literary Characters Disturbing the Universe

Book Recommendations, Fiction, List, Literature & Psychology / By Mary Daniels Brown / June 24, 2015 / "Blue Diary", "Broken for You", "One Thousand White Women", "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves", Alice Hoffman, Harper Lee, Jim Fergus, Karen Joy Fowler, Stephanie Kallos, To Kill a Mockingbird

Literary Characters Disturbing the Universe In his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot wrote “Do I dare/disturb the universe?” Erin Haley looks at novels that present characters who dare to ask the same question as Prufrock. The main theme is independence, she says. Such characters “challenge the status quo.” Because challenging […]

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What Your Favorite Books Tell You About Your Writing

Life Stories in Literature, Literature & Psychology, Personal, Story, Writing / By Mary Daniels Brown / February 10, 2015 / featured, Frank McCourt, Harper Lee, Louise M. Rosenblatt, Mary Catherine Bateson, Mary Karr, Stephanie Kallos, Sue Monk Kidd, To Kill a Mockingbird

My major life activities are reading (usually fiction) and writing (always nonfiction). So I’m delighted when I come across something that combines the two: something like Marcy McKay’s writing challenge What Your Favorite Books Tell You About Your Writing. Marcy runs The Write Practice, a web site and newsletter aimed at fiction writers, but even

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