white elephants

Understanding White Elephants & Hemingway’s Short Stories – II

  In my recent literature class at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (University of Richmond), I advised my students not to try to read Hemingway’s Short Stories, for the first

Finca Vigia Edition of Hemingway's Short Stories

Understanding Ernest Hemingway’s Short Stories: Part I

Although many literary critics have concluded that Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, others find his work remote, depressing, and difficult to grasp.

Original picture on 1876 Tom Sawyer Novel

Tom Sawyer Revisited: Reading the Book as a Child and as an Adult

On April 11, 2017, I will begin leading a discussion class on Mark Twain’s, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at the OSHER Institute on the University of Richmond campus.  I will