Cliff Edwards, Beloved Founder of the VCU Religious Studies Program Retired After 47 Years

  Author: Brian McNeill, of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Public Affairs Department. Original web publication date: 7/20/2020 When I saw a notice that the “Beloved” Dr. Cliff Edwards was

A Confederacy of Dunces

Nothing Recedes Like Success*: A Confederacy of Dunces – Part I

I am pleased that Rebecca Jones, co-founder of the VCU Working Titles Book Club, has written the following commentary on John Kennedy Toole’s novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, which was

by Viktor frankl

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankel Discussed at the Working Titles Book Club

The Working Titles Book Club, a group of graduate alumnae from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) held our second meeting on March 29, 2017.  Our discussion, on Man’s Search for Meaning

Bringing Litchatte.com Back on Line___________________!

My apologies to the regular and new Litchatte.com readers and subscribers. My site was essentially offline for the last week or so. While I was working with the developers to

Poe’s Importance in the History of Nineteenth-Century Science

I first published this article two weeks ago in the Poe and Science Blog (found under the tab, Museum News) for the Richmond Edgar Allan Poe Museum (www.poemuseum.org). Under an agreement

Poetic Panacea

Poetic Panacea: Final Poems From My Spring 2016 Workshop

Here are the last poems that were written by the senior-aged participants of my ten-week class for retired seniors at the Lifelong Learning Institute in Chesterfield, Virginia. I had taught

Murray Ellison, Aged 68, Receives VCU English Master of Arts Diploma in the Mail Today!

It finally came! After almost three years of going to night-school, part-time, at Virginia Commonwealth University(VCU) in Richmond, Virginia, my Master of Arts in English Diploma finally arrived in the mail today!