A Kate Chopin story
This week Narrative reprints Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour, first published in 1894.
This week Narrative reprints Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour, first published in 1894.
“On taking thought it seemed to me that I must aim at lucidity, simplicity, & euphony.” — Somerset Maugham
The dead language that isn’t: Latin returns to the school language curriculum.
Blake Bailey’s John Cheever biography isn’t out till next March, but an advance copy arrived in the mail a couple days ago, and I’ve been enjoying the author’s skillful and generous use of excerpts from Cheever’s massive journal. The highlight so far (in that it reveals Cheever as an at-least-occasional black hole for praise) is an entry about the lunch . . .
Finally. Harry Crews is selected for induction into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.