“If the soul
has a smell,
it’s the smell
of old books.”
~ Andre Dubus III, speaking at AWP 2013 of the 40 boxes of his father’s library
books
Can you match these first lines to their book titles?
Oscar’s Gift Reading Guide: Day 26 Books Published in the Early 1900s “The lid came off with a loud creak and a small cloud of dust and packing straw. Inside were books. More books than I had ever seen in one place. More books than I had seen even in a school.” ~ Oscar’s Gift …
Bright, Talented & Black Hits the Sweet Spot
Joy Lawson Davis, Ed.D., begins Bright, Talented & Black: A Guide for Families of African American Gifted Learners (Great Potential Press) with the poem “Genius Child” by Langston Hughes. Her book is indeed, in Hughes’s phrase, “a song for the genius child,” comprehensive in scope and unfailingly friendly in tone. Unlike so many books about …
Joy Lawson Davis on writing “Bright, Talented & Black”
I am very pleased to re-publish this guest post by Dr. Joy Lawson Davis on why she wrote her book Bright, Talented & Black: A Guide for Families of African American Gifted Learners (you can also read an excerpt of her book and my review). Dr. Davis and Bright, Talented & Black are making a real difference in schools and families across the …
Book Therapy for Life’s Big Questions
[Note: Over the next few weeks, I will be moving some posts here that I had previously published on my first blog, Everyday Intensity. This updated piece was originally published Oct. 24, 2011.] Do you ever struggle with existential questions and concerns? Do these questions affect your writing? And just what are existential questions, anyway? …