I am hosting a radio show and podcast on WFHB, community radio, in Bloomington, IN, called The Custom House that will air on Saturdays at 5:30 p.m. through August and continue as a podcast. The…
Posts tagged literature
The Child of the Marketplace Metaphor
Since the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay, organized in covenants as a joint stock company, imagined themselves a mystic brotherhood reborn in the body of Christ, American history has progressed under the sway of two, conflicting…
Nobel for Literature to the Transformers? No, that’s Transtromer!
*The “transformer” joke in this post’s title, if it can be called a joke, came at the insistence of “spell check” in WordPress. From the LA Times, Sweden Poet Tomas Transtromer Awarded Nobel Prize in…
True Education: Huck’s River, Against the Banks
I’ve been chatting with my friend Eric, who is a teacher, about Huckleberry Finn and we were discussing the difficulty of actually reading this greatest and most seminal of American novels (as Hemingway opined, though…