If I read a book I turn the page. That’s how it works with book reading. Turn the page, then another and another until there’s no more pages. Call that story a page turner. A life plan when life moves on without you feels the same. Maybe you didn’t turn the page, but […]
LOOK HOMEWARD HILLBILLY ANGEL, LOOK HARD
What does a hillbilly see when they look homeward? From all appearances I’m not the only blogger with a Thomas Wolfe fixation. Yet anyone who takes the time to look homeward as an adult, especially an adult writer with a Thomas Wolfe problem, sees the past in new light. Hard reading does that, which […]
THOMAS WOLFE PACK ON THE PORCH
If you don’t live in a state with a celebrated novelist, go to North Carolina and Thomas Wolfe. This is dark suited Thomas Wolfe, author of Look Homeward Angel, not white suited Tom Wolfe, author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Same neighborhood, North Carolina and Virginia, but different eras. That Thomas Wolfe was such […]