Have Hit a Major Roadblock – POETS ON POETRY – No “Emotional Slither!”
My library is fated to swell and I to be buried in the falling, cascading books from the shelves. An appropriate end for a misspent life, I suppose, monomaniacally focused on books. Have unearthed a...
View ArticleReading and Thinking – Consequent Amazements
I have currently undertaken two superficially antithetical parallel reading pursuits: re-savoring Thoreau’s WALDEN and re-assaulting the difficult, luminous, thorny works of William Gass (once my...
View ArticleWhat You Can Do Right Now to Make a Difference, a Tonic for Our Times
The following I suspect needs very little prologue, for as Shakespeare said, “the past is prologue,” (check the news, old and new), and as Flannery O’Connor said, “the violent bear it away.” ” Things...
View ArticleOur Words Indict Us
(c) Copyright 2013, Margaret Langstaff, All Rights Reserved “What a piece of work is man.” It takes genius to fully render him, both in time and for all time. English: Dante Alighieri’s portrait by...
View ArticleDoes Art Imitate Life? Or…Life Imitate Art?
Speaking of Shakespeare (as we were here recently), I had a major Shakespeare “moment” three weeks ago when a plot element from my most recent novel worked its awful insidious way into my own life. The...
View ArticleLay on, Macduff!
Photo of the first page of Macbeth from a facsimile edition of the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays, published in 1623 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) (c) Copyright 2013, Margaret Langstaff, All Rights...
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