This post is part of a series dedicated to Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories, from The Library of America. “Godliness (Parts I and II)” comes from Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. For an introduction to this series and for links to the other posts, please click here. The four parts that make up “Godliness” (the first two
Gettysburg, a pivotal battle in the American Civil War, was fought on July 1 – 3, 1863, making this year the 150th anniversary. As far as I know, I have no personal relationship to the battle; none of my relatives were there, and I grew up on the other side of the country. But when I had the opportunity
Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Zadie Smith’s “Meet the President!” was originally published in the August 12 & 19, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Betsy Zadie Smith’s “Meet the President!” is fitted with one visual after another, as if trying to sell its movie rights: boy on
I have not gone off the deep end — I don’t think — and have started a new project that will run independently of The Mookse and the Gripes, a new solo podcast called The Worlds and Works of Shakespeare. The plan (and I’ve done a lot of prep work so I’m hoping it goes
Episodes of The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast: discussions of books and authors, shaped by curiosity, rereading, and the pleasures of talking things through.
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