Joyce Carol Oates is a big deal among the literary elite. So much so the eighty-six year old author is considered a living legend. Her resume–Professor of Creative Writing, Princeton, over fifty novels published, three of them finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as volumes of poetry, short stories and plays–bespeaks gifted intellect, hard […]
The Trek There was only about six weeks to go before summer break when Tabitha Tuders walked out her front door on a morning like so many other mornings–yet different. She was on her way to 15th and Boscobel where she would wait with other neighborhood kids for the school bus that arrived at eight […]
It began before the garden, within the realm of angels . Waxing and waning throughout the annuls of time, it manifests in great upheavals of war, pestilence and genocide and in more subtle displays of the same, in open spaces and behind closed doors. Under The Carpet The period was post WWII, 1946-1967. Though seemingly […]
He may have left Poland because of persecution. It was tough to be Jewish in the latter part of the 19th Century, especially in Eastern Europe and its bordering areas of Central Europe. There were lots of tensions. To boil things down to the skeletal remains, a burgeoning movement of the moment was catching […]
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