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Dear Gayl, In Eva’s Man (1976), we follow Eva Medina Canada, a 43-year-old woman who has been convicted for murdering her lover, Davis Carter, by poisoning him with…… Read more “What would you do if you broke bread and blood came out?”
Month: June 2020
Gayl Jones
Gayl Jones (November 23, 1949) is an African-American writer. She graduated from Connecticut College, in 1971, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. In 1973, she…… Read more “Gayl Jones”
We are speechless animals letting ourselves be destroyed
Dear Katherine, In “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” (1939), the eponymous piece from your collection of three novellas, we follow twenty-four-year-old Miranda, as she falls ill during the…… Read more “We are speechless animals letting ourselves be destroyed”
Virago Lesbian Landmarks Reading Project
Hi, folks! Thanks to Cate at the Virago Modern Classics Readers group on Facebook, I found out that Virago had published a series of lesbian fiction called…… Read more “Virago Lesbian Landmarks Reading Project”
Virago Modern Classics by Black Authors
Hi, folks! [Forgive me for spamming you, but, due to my obsession with lists and my tendency to create endless reading projects, today you will have two…… Read more “Virago Modern Classics by Black Authors”
Seven days, a handful of books, and one black square
“She saw herself for an obscene sore in all their lives, at all costs to be hidden. She understood, even while she resented. It would have been…… Read more “Seven days, a handful of books, and one black square”
Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter (born Callie Russell Porter; May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American writer. Her mother died in 1892, when Porter was two…… Read more “Katherine Anne Porter”
Something that was unassailable and inviolable
Dear Netty, The Seventh Cross (tr. Margo Bettauer Dembo, 2018. Original: Das siebte Kreuz, 1942) starts and ends at the same point – but, in the span…… Read more “Something that was unassailable and inviolable”
