Back-of-the-Book Indexer
My husband does! Or at least some of the best of them. 🙂 We just learned that both volumes of his long-term, many-years-in-the-making project of editing Samuel Richardson’s Pamela are now listed on the Cambridge University Press website: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded Pamela in Her Exalted Condition “Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded is perhaps the most …
This is a good time to check in with my March goal, which is to read one fiction and one non-fiction book a week. So far, I’ve finished Catching Fire, Mockingjay, and Predictable Irrationality, so having the goal in mind is definitely helping to focus my reading time. It’s not that I necessarily want to …
I can’t let February 2nd go by without noting James Joyce’s birthday. Yesterday I had the pleasure of reading his Dubliners short story “Araby” to 20 college students (all of whom, by coincidence, were male, which for this particular story seemed fitting): NORTH RICHMOND STREET being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour …
When I turned the last page of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle last week, I felt as though I had come to the end of a long, satisfying dream, one that showed me, mainly through the eyes of dogs and a mute child, a world unlike any I have known yet, at the same time, …