Eudora Welty’s second voice: how she infused her own thoughts into countless stories Eudora Welty mastered the art of writing. She created complex characters who follow her trademark saying, that “…Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single entire human being who will never be confined in any frame”; she Read more…
My experience at WriCampia was special. Although it wasn’t ideal at first, through many hours of social activity, I began to feel a sense of comfort and solace there. When I awoke on the morning of the day of departure, I was immediately drowned in feelings of annoyance and resentment for the camp that my mother Read more…
The Twitter Files: the extent of current censorship The Twitter Files are a series of Twitter (now called “X“) threads published from December 2022 through March 2023, discussing internal documents between Twitter and the FBI that reveal government involvement and left-leaning bias in content moderation, information on the suspension of Donald Trump, and censorship of Read more…
JASON IS READING LORD GRIZZLY BY FREDERICK MANFRED. This novel, written in 1954, is the authoritative creative nonfiction masterpiece by Manfred, far far superior to the more recent The Revenant, which was made into a Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle of the same name. In Manfred’s work, buffeted by many long hours exploring the countryside where Hugh Read more…
Chaim Potok’s The Chosen throws the reader into a bildungsroman, a coming of age story, of two Jews, Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter, during the tail-end of World War Two and its aftermath as the horrors of the Holocaust are unveiled to the public, and movements like Zionism rise to debate the idea of the Read more…
