April 29, 2019
Walking the Void: The Divided World of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance
The narrator of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance, Miles Coverdale (and Hawthorne himself as his preface shows), inhabits the space between the internal world of the writer and the external […]
June 30, 2018
Against the Single Effect
A common theory widely taught in creative writing classes is Edgar Allen Poe’s idea of the single effect, which argues that short stories should build towards producing one pre-conceived emotional […]
December 29, 2013
Sixteen Days with Zia & Sip-Sip by Dad
Back in 2009, before I had kids, I spent some time with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa. I read the book; I listened (twice) […]