In the afterword to his novel, "American Scholar," author Patrick Horrigan notes that it was a historical coincidence that inspired him to write his book, and how his own life affair paralleled his scholarly subject.
In the 1980s, I would have been described as a long-distance runner, a marathoner. When I turned 40 in 1994 I got tired of the marathon training grind. It began to feel like a second job. Under the guidance of Mike Barnow, the coach of the Westchester Track Club, I began to focus on shorter-distance […]
The same-sex union between painter Russell Cheney and Harvard history and literature professor F. O. Matthiessen would have worked out very differently today.