For me, literacy was discovered in the Windy City’s cruel, winter howl—the intertwining of English, Spanish, and Polish a language all its own. Growing up in the Chicago Polish neighborhood…
-
-
Image Credit: Camile Corot, A Woman Reading It’s May 10, 2019, and it’s a sweltering evening in middle Georgia—specifically Milledgeville, Georgia—home of Flannery O’Connor (a Georgia College and State…
-
Image Credit: Slate 1. The wet human hair looks opalescent through plastic. The man in the red flannel edges closer, bends down to get a better look, backs…
-
We were drinking at the time—well, Nick and me at least. My younger brother, Josh, wouldn’t drink, won’t drink. We were all home from college, some in-between time during the…
-
“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.” Over the years, Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar has had many covers. Here’s a few of them with some quotes directly…
-
It’s October and Halloween is already around the corner. Of course you can get your horror fix by snuggling up with popcorn and watching a scary movie, but you can…
-
More writing exists about Sylvia Plath than by her, and three more works came out in the first half of 2013: Carl Rollyson’s American Isis, Andrew Wilson’s Mad Girl’s Love…