It seems like post-apocalyptic films and books are all over the place right now. Just watching the previews for the movie 2012, which came out in November, made me want to cry. I don’t want the world to end in 2012, or anytime soon, really. So why are we so fascinated with it?
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Halloween got me thinking about horror fiction. I’m a big fan of the horror genre, and I think that one of the reasons I enjoy it so much is that it’s revelatory. What we fear says a great deal about who we are.
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All summer, I read Shakespeare out on my porch with a cold drink, pausing to watch the dragonflies hover around the leaves of my hibiscus.
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When I tell people that I’m from Jasper, Alabama, I tend to get looks of surprise. I don’t have an accent, I don’t know anything about college football, and I don’t even like sweet tea. More than once, when I’ve shortened my answer to just “Jasper,” I’ve gotten a quizzical look. “Jasper, Wyoming, you mean?”
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I suppose that it doesn’t seem like summer reading, but Elaine Showalter’s A Jury of Her Peers had me flipping pages as fast as any murder mystery could. Showalter tracks the history of women writers in America from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, weaving together their personal stories with their artistic achievements to create compelling [...]
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