Winesburg, Ohio is a short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson, that I read this year, and I would like to tell you a little about some aspects of his book. He started to write Winesburg, Ohio in 1915. All the stories were written rapidly, with little need for revision, each of them…
I hope you still remember our foray into Rick Bass’s universe. Here’s the promised link with the short story I told you about, called the Canoeists. It’s a good way to explore his writing further, plus you get to hear him and some good music too.
Jane Eyre has been one of my favorite English novels ever since I discovered it. Yes it’s a little bit cliché but true, so I have decided to write about it. I read it first in 2011, when I was 16 and I can’t stop reading it. I finished it in two days and I’ve…
Autumn always brings Keats to mind (well, to my mind at least!). The proof that even the ordeal of the agrégation cannot destroy the joys of truly great poetry…(photograph courtesy of the British Library website) To Autumn BY JOHN KEATS 1795–1821 Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with…
This is not a fresh piece of news at all, but I wanted to share with you this reading of Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl by James Franco in the movie of the same name. Real figurehead of the Beat Generation, Ginsberg wrote this poem in 1955 to denounce the nuclear weapon while depicting a youth…
Rory Kinnear was an inspired Iago; here, he reflects on playing Hamlet at the National Theatre: