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You didn’t have to live in Cornwall, Conn., to know Laurie Colwin, one of many famous writers who have lived in this particularly artistic little Northwest Corner town.
Tom Shachtman of Salisbury, Conn., has a new book, “The Memoir of the Minotaur,” which the promotional materials describe as “the posthumous confessions of the half-man, half-bull of Crete, as offered to an audience of recently-deceased, 21st-century fellow souls in Hades’ domain.
Photo from Melville House Publishing
How many depictions of Indigenous peoples in North America that have permeated popular culture are actually the product of their own experiences, imaginations or childhood memories?
Marcus John will read from “Black Reconstruction in America” by W.E.B. Du Bois this weekend as part of a multi-week online celebration of the author’s work. Photo from The ReadIn
This weekend and every weekend until Election Day (Nov. 3), the online ReadIn of “Black Reconstruction in America” by W.E.B. Du Bois continues.
Was Edward de Vere the man who wrote the plays we now attribute to William Shakespeare? Photo courtesy National Portrait Gallery
It’s a question that’s almost theological: Was the man who wrote the greatest plays in the English language actually William Shakespeare, or was it someone else?
Locked room mysteries are perhaps the most perfect type of tale to read during a quarantine. Photo by Cynthia Hochswender
For the avid detective fiction fan, there is no puzzle more alluring than a locked room mystery. In its simplest form, it is a crime (usually a murder) that has been committed in a room sealed from the inside with no way out (and in theory, no way in).
If we all end up in a COVID-19 quarantine, we will of course have lots of time to catch up with our reading and viewing.
Here are a couple topical suggestions. I haven’t actually read these books or seen one of these two films, but maybe now is the time when I will at last.
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