![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While this is supposed to be the diary of a year in her solitary life, she sure has a lot of friends and visitors for being a self-proclaimed "solitude". May Sarton is a writer/poet who lives alone in New England. This ebook features an extended biography of May Sarton. Both uplifting and cathartic, it sweeps us along on Sarton’s pilgrimage inward. Journal of a Solitude is a moving and profound meditation on creativity, oneness with nature, and the courage it takes to be alone. Sarton’s garden is her great, abiding joy, sustaining her through seasons of psychic and emotional pain. She confesses her fears, her disappointments, her unresolved angers. She likens writing to “cracking open the inner world again,” which sometimes plunges her into depression. She shares insights about everyday life in the quiet New Hampshire village of Nelson, the desire for friends, and need for solitude-both an exhilarating and terrifying state. In her bravest and most revealing memoir, Sarton casts her keenly observant eye on both the interior and exterior worlds. ![]() May Sarton’s parrot chatters away as Sarton looks out the window at the rain and contemplates returning to her “real” life-not friends, not even love, but writing. “Loneliness is the poverty of self solitude is richness of self.” -May Sarton wise and warm” journal of time spent in her New Hampshire home alone with her garden, her books, the seasons, and herself (Eugenia Thornton, Cleveland Plain Dealer ). ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() A gregarious son completed the family in 1997. That same summer, her spirited daughter was born. The next year she married and in 1995 she graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Law and was admitted into the Oklahoma Bar Association. In 1990 Blayne graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. Today, she is a project manager for a legal publishing company by day, and writer by night. The result is a diverse collection of lesbian fiction.īlayne has held a number of interesting, and sometimes rather unusual jobs (sunflower sexer), and completed a stint as a Combat Medic in the Army National Guard. With each novel she tackles a new personal writing challenge. She is the Royal Academy of Bards 2005 Hall of Fame Author and a recipient of the 2014 Academy of Bards Lifetime Achievement Award.īorn in Northern California in January 1969, Blayne Cooper is the best-selling author of a variety of fiction ranging from mystery/romance to outrageous parody. Blayne Cooper has also written under the pen name Advocate. ![]() ![]() The former book's conclusion gave us fair warning where End of Watch was going to go, granted, but even so, if you're going to introduce something speculative into a world arranged around the idea that every event can be explained, you have to at least give a reason why the rules have summarily changed. When for whatever reason he can't lean on the MacGuffins he so often uses to sustain his stories, he has to work that much harder to make them in some sense momentous, and this, I think, brings out the best in King as a creator-see last year's Finders Keepers, which for my money holds up against even Different Seasons. Oddly for an author so closely associated with the supernatural, Stephen King's naturalistic narratives have been among his most magical. Hartsfield has no control over his own body, so, somehow, he's started hijacking the bodies of passers-by to do his dirty work: work which involves inciting the seeming suicides of the several thousand survivors of his various attacks way back. Look inside Dr Z, and there, pulling all the levers, is Brady Hartsfield. ![]() He's become a living Russian nesting doll, which goes perfectly with his furry Russian hat. Her final doubts are swept away and she knows for sure. For good or for ill, End of Watch doubles down on that then-unexpected direction: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His love for the theatre may be traced back to his membership in L'Equipe, an Algerian theatre group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons. He also adapted plays by Calderon, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun. But his journalistic activities had been chiefly a response to the demands of the time in 1947 Camus retired from political journalism and, besides writing his fiction and essays, was very active in the theatre as producer and playwright (e.g., Caligula, 1944). The man and the times met: Camus joined the resistance movement during the occupation and after the liberation was a columnist for the newspaper Combat. Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest in philosophy (only chance prevented him from pursuing a university career in that field), he came to France at the age of twenty-five. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. ![]() Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() The novel is written in the cadence of the blues Ellison, according to James Baldwin, was among the first authors to integrate the irony and humor of black American culture into literature. His most famous work, Invisible Man, published in 1952, tells the story of an unnamed black protagonist who’s rendered unseeable by racism in pre-civil rights America. He wanted to universalize the black American experience by linking it to the larger American story and, ultimately, to the human struggle itself. A self-identified “Negro,” born on the outskirts of Oklahoma City, Ellison-with African, European, and Native American features-embodied in his life the American ethnic archetype. One American who attempted such a reconciliation was the novelist Ralph Ellison. Can America’s background be reconciled with the idea of a universalist civilization? On the other, those documents govern a country settled by a specific ethnic group, with a specific history and culture-English Protestants, with British traditions of law and justice and European art and philosophy-that once failed to live up to those principles. On the one hand, the nation’s founding documents express the universalist humanist principles of liberty and equality. ![]() ![]() A historical tension lies at the center of the American nation. ![]() ![]() By 1400, she had become a distinguished and sought-after author, her work being received at the upper echelons of society and later translated into multiple other languages. After her husband died of the plague in 1389, Christine began a remarkable career as a court writer for King Charles VI of France. At the age of fifteen, she married Étienne du Castel, a notary and royal secretary, with whom she had three children. On the occasion of Women’s History Month, we take a look back on the life and work of this extraordinary figure of the Middle Ages.īorn in Venice as the daughter of a physician and astrologer, Cristina da Pizzano moved to Paris in 1368 when her father accepted an appointment at the French court. ![]() This interview is part of a series of blog posts centered around Women’s History Month.Īlthough she died almost 600 years ago, Italian-French writer, strategist and historian Christine de Pizan (1364–c.1429) continues to captivate medievalists and laypeople around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate, the beautiful, wild, blue-blooded Genevra Winslow. Ev invites Mabel to spend the summer at Bittersweet, her cottage on the Vermont estate where her family has been holding court for more than a century. Mabel falls in love with midnight skinny-dipping, the wet dog smell that lingers near the yachts, and the moneyed laughter that carries across the still lake while fireworks burst overhead. ![]() Suspenseful and cinematic, New York Times bestseller Bittersweet exposes the gothic underbelly of an idyllic world of privilege and an outsider’s hunger to belong. ![]() ![]() ![]() After first becoming acquainted on a 40-hour bus trip in 1943, the couple had subsequently courted via letters to and from Europe, where Henry Giles was serving in the military, and were married the same day Henry returned to the United States. In 1945 Janice Holt married Henry Giles, who was eleven years her junior. In 1941 Janice Holt obtained a position as secretary at the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Janice Holt worked for a number of years with a number of church-affiliated clerical jobs, first in Oklahoma and then in Kentucky, having moved to Frankfort in 1939 subsequent to her divorce that year from her first husband Otto Moore, whom she had wed in 1927. She had two younger siblings, Mary Catherine Holt Sullivan (JJanuary 8, 1995) and John Albert Holt Jr. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was born Janice Meredith Holt on March 28, 1905, in Altus, Arkansas to John Albert Holt and Lucy Elizabeth (née McGraw) both her parents were teachers. Janice Holt Giles (Ma– June 1, 1979) was an American writer who lived near Knifley in Adair County, Kentucky. ( April 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. ![]() ![]() ![]() We look forward to offering a number of events in the FA20 semester in support of Automating Inequality and we hope to see our entire campus community participate in the reading and discussion of the 2020-22 book and common theme!Īuthor Virginia Eubanks Discusses Automating Inequality This title will be made available to students during the FA20 Day of Welcome. Newborn babies on their future risk of being abused to one millionĭenials of welfare benefits in Indiana, Automating Inequality is a deeply unsettling exploration of the impact of automated decision-making on public services in America.”- Author's siteįor staff and faculty who are interested in reading of Automating Inequality over the summer, copies will be available in Molstead Library. ![]() This book was one of sixteen titles submitted for consideration by the campus community in the SP19 semester and explores the following: ![]() ![]() The Cardinal Reads committee is excited to announce Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor as the 2020-22 common read selection in support of the Diversity Theme, Common Ground: Science, Technology and Society. How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor HOME ◉ ABOUT ◉ COMMITTEE ROSTER ◉ GUIDE ◉ NOMINEES ◉ PAST READS ![]() |