Chessboard. And in empire of self, Middlebury College professor of english jay parini recalls the life of gore vidal. Look for titles in in the bookstores this week and watch for the authors in the future on cspan2. Host glenn beck, in your newest book why do you open with Thomas Jefferson and the library of congress . Guest because jefferson changed hi life. He wrote my life. He wrote a letter to his nephew, peter carr. Peter was 15, 14, somewhere in that a area. His mother had died, his father was about to the to die, and his father said to thomas, thomas l you oversee the education of my son when i pass on . Smartest man i know. Is he said, sure. So when peter comes of age, he writes him this beautiful letter. And he says in mathematics, you have to learn these things. Never read a book out of its native tongue because youll lose too much, and then he gets to the last one, and he said when it comes to religion, above all things fix reason firmly in her season and question with boldn
Together the life and we have the clues from of course her brother william, her brother henry and from her letters and from her diaries trying to work out that he died in her 40s and did not produce the work that her brothers produced but had the abiding wish that lacked a bit of prose style than either of them in a better mind a sharper mind than either of them. The only girl in the family of five sitting at the dinner table listening to them until a certain age when her mother made clear to her its your job to start sewing and preparing yourself to be a mother and a bostonian matron. And her realizing whatever happened to her imagination did not match but was expected of her. So i think when youre writing if you are a woman you are always writing about oppression, self suppression and also being very very careful with the character emerges in the shining world in one piece. Be very careful just to be sympathetic about the idea that takes enormous wealth. That takes an enormous amount
Reading the late Tyrone Williams’s last book, befittingly released by his alma mater, is to be caught up in a bittersweet moment which pulses both with loss and pleasure at rediscovering this poet’s immense power to summon the sounds of his culture. We do well to stow away umbrellas, rain boots, thunder coats and instead let the lyric make direct contact at the throat, ribcage and imprint its music as it rises, spills and slides between word and thing. It pours! It writes! “splashing pools of awww…”
Nearly 100 years ago, an impending solar eclipse prompted whimsical suggestions for how to spend the few minutes of darkness from a prominent American humorist. Millions are on the move to get to the path of totality for Monday’s eclipse or planning to watch close to home but what will they do when the moment comes?
Nearly 100 years ago, an impending solar eclipse prompted whimsical suggestions for how to spend the few minutes of darkness from a prominent American humorist. Millions are on the move to get to the path of totality for Monday’s eclipse or planning to watch close to home but what will they do when the moment comes?