Ventress book group meets Nov. 17 Nov 17, 2009
Published by American writer Willa Cather in 1927, the story is set in late 1800s New Mexico and Arizona. The book explores themes of mortality and spirituality through the main character, Bishop Latour, and his friend, a missionary priest. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
The Palin Persuasion Nov 13, 2009
such towns as Galesburg, Monmouth, and Dixon--just the sorts of places responsible for one of the raging themes of American literature, the soul-murdering complacency of our provinces, without which the careers of Edwin Arlington Robinson, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, and Willa Cather, to name just a few, would never have found glory. The best and brightest fled all our Galesburgs and Dixons, if they could, but [Reagan] was not among them. (CBS News -- Opinion)
Teacher of the year nominee pushes students to challenge preconceptions Oct 20, 2009
Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Willa Cather, Langston Hughes, Julia Alvarez, Ernest Hemingway. Tim O Brien and Emily Bronte. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Reading List: Fall & Winter 2009 ... Oct 19, 2009
Reading List: Fall r 2009 2010, Part 1. Reading List: Fall & Winter 2009 2010, Part 1. (Suite101.com)
Check out a New York Times story on Columbus Sep 30, 2009
No one considers me to be a hick and I am often surprised by how often New Yorkers will mention notable Nebraskans in these conversations like Willa Cather, Malcom-x and even Tom Osborne. (Yes, Nebraska football has a big following here too. (Columbus Telegram, NE)
English classes taking a 'readwhatever you want' approach Sep 13, 2009
Perhaps greater flexibility and refinement in the books assigned -- more Willa Cather, less John Steinbeck; more O'Connor, less Richard Wright -- would make reading more engaging to students. But this type of modification is to discriminate within the tradition, not to abandon it. (NJ.com -- Times)
Professor helps pioneer field of fat studies Sep 11, 2009
The discipline is gaining traction, McCrossin said, and her article titled "The Fat of the (Border) land: Food, Flesh and Hispanic Masculinity in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop" was part of a collection of essays recently featured in an article in The New Yorker ... McCrossin continues to present her work and speak at academic conferences around the world, including the International Willa Cather Conference in France. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
Arrested development Sep 6, 2009
She first lived on bucolic Perry Street and then Washington Place, in the building where the writer Willa Cather lived. Nearby Washington Square Park, celebrated by Henry James as a comfortable outdoor living room in the heart of Greenwich Village, was for Jacobs and all the denizens of the Village a respite of green and open space, with playgrounds for her three children, spontaneous outdoor concerts for folk singers including a young Bob Dylan, and soapbox orators. (Boston Globe)
Sit. Stay. Read. Aug 30, 2009
It will remind you of the best of Willa Cather. "Follow My Leader" (1957) by James Garfield. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Richard Poirier; literary critic and writer who founded Library of America Aug 22, 2009
Nearly 200 volumes collecting the works of Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, Philip Roth, and other writers have been published to date. Dr. Poirier joined the project in its planning stages in 1977 and served on its board of directors until 2006, when he stepped down as chairman. (Boston Globe)
Literary ghost stories Aug 2, 2009
And then, with the pulps, come H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather and others. "Let us at least take note that loss, grief, and terror echo throughout the two volumes of 'American Fantastic Tales,'" Straub says in his introduction. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Postmodernism In Movies & TV Today Jul 14, 2009
Willa Cather said in "O Pioneers" there are two or three human stories and they go on repeating themselves as if they never happened. Who knew she wrote for film and tv. (Suite101.com)
Recommended summer reads Jun 16, 2009
"My ntonia," by Willa Cather (1918). I love this book because of the eloquent way it describes humans' relationship to nature through the struggles of early Europeans in settling and cultivating the lands of Nebraska. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
BACKSTAGE: Mister Rogers to be honored in Escondido May 15, 2009
Film and stage star Eva Marie Saint and her husband, Jeffrey Hayden, will co-star in a staged reading of "On the Divide," excerpts from the novels of turn-of-the-century prairie author Willa Cather, at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts. The performance will include dramatic excerpts from some of Cather's books (which include "My Antonia," "O Pioneers" and "Song of the Lark") and some of her short stories. (North County Times)
LETTER: Using Bible to denounce homosexuality is wrong Apr 29, 2009
The Question wrote on Apr 28, 2009 4:59 PM:" If you were to retroactively withdraw the accomplishments of gay people from history, you'd find yourself somewhere back in the Dark Ages, at least.Subtract the achievements of these: Alexander the Great, Socrates, Hadrian, Richard the Lionhearted, Edward II, Saladin, Francis Bacon, Frederick the Great, Byron, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Willa Cather, E.M. Forster, Tchaikovsky, Marcel Proust, Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, Julius Caesar, Pope Julius... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Author Elaine Showalter at Harvard Book Store Apr 1, 2009
She includes Emily Dickinson and Willa Cather in her 250 entries, to be sure, but also the likes of Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Jennifer Weiner. In her recent review in the Globe, critic Mary Loeffelholz wrote, "At the heart of 'A Jury of Her Peers' lies a robustly middlebrow pantheon of the realistic novel as written by American women, from Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' in the middle of the 19th century, to Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' Grace Metalious's 'Peyton Place,'... (Boston Globe)
Scribblers of America, Unite! Mar 9, 2009
The celebrated get their dueHarriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrisonand so do the forgotten: Mercy Otis Warren, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mary Austin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Emma Lazarus, Anzia Yezierska, Nella Larsen, Meridel LeSueur, Ann Petry, and a host of others. Who decides which subjects matter; what voice is appropriate for what kind of story; what books get... (Slate)
Stephen Crane Biography Mar 2, 2009
His work was neglected for many years after his death until rediscovered by other writers such as Amy Lowell and Willa Cather. Works by Stephen Crane. (Suite101.com)
