In Poe’s Imaginary Journey, “Mellonta Tauta” (1849), the narrator, Pundit, embarks on a balloon trip to outer space in the year of 2848 and writes a letter from the
Do You Agree That A Confederacy of the Dunces Isn’t Really About Anything?
Article and Book Club Discussion Questions by James Evans James will lead our First Friday Classic Book Club Discussion of A Confederacy of the Dunces on Friday, June 7, 2019,
A Father Gives His Son the Gift of Dog Turd in Steinbeck’s East of Eden
A Modern Re-Telling of the Cain & Abel Story In Steinbeck’s East of Eden’s first modern re-telling of the Cain and Abel story, Charles the second son of Cyrus Trask
Adam Misses His Mother in Steinbeck’s Garden of Eden
“Adam discovered that his step-mother, Alice, had been walking around the house naked—and had been smiling. He wondered how she had dared such wantonness. And his longing (for a mother)
Exploring the Universal Wisdom of Steinbeck’s East of Eden – Part I
Searching for Steinbeck’s Beliefs in His Books In the next series of Litchattte Blogs, I will be considering John Steinbeck’s 1952 novel, East of Eden and the accompanying Journal he
Fiction and Non-Fiction in Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley and East of Eden?
Travels with Charley – Fact or Fictions? In John Steinbeck’s last book, Travels with Charley (1962), he concluded that “We find after years of struggle that we do not take
Eudora Welty’s Short Stories Mark A Worn Path – Part II
By Mary Ramsey Evans, MA. A Classic Book Club (Richmond, VA) Facilitator* After we discussed “Petrified Man,” (See Litchatte 3/11/2019), we addressed “Why I Live at the PO,” perhaps one
Eudora Welty – Southern Raconteur
(This Essay was written for the Litchatte Blog by Mary Ramsey Evans, a First Friday Book Club (Richmond, Virginia) facilitator). Last month, I had the privilege of attending the Eudora Welty
MS Found in a Bottle – Poe’s Uncertainties About 19th-Century Science
This review is an excerpt from Murray Ellison’s 2015 VCU MA Thesis on Poe and Nineteen-Century Science©. Originally published in the Edgar Allan Museum’s Science Blog: www.thepoeblog.org Poe illustrated his
Dive Deep and Discover The Treasures of The Pearl
“It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with