A Room of One's Own

 

Pollock

                                                                             1952

                                                                     1949

                                                                     1948

                                                                    1942
 

                                                                    1942

                                                            1932-1938

Let Us Welcome Autumn

 

Hemingway in Paris

 

Autumn at Walden Pond

                                         Image Credit: John Wawrzonek

Apples, Cinnamon, and Honey

 

The Sun Also Rises

 

The Sun Also Rises is the early novel that made Hemingway famous: he emerged in that book with a distinctive, spare, prose style and a world-weary attitude that set the tone for the “Lost Generation” of American artist expats who would dominate modern literature in English for much of the 20th century. It is also, by the way, a very funny book—once you catch on to Hem's bone dry sense of humor.

The great American literary historian and critic Alfred Kazin wrote that Hemingway “put life back on the page, made us see, feel, and taste the gift of life in its unalloyed and irreducible reality.” The result? “To read Hemingway was always to feel more alive.”

Great fiction does not falsify. On the contrary, it brings us face to face with the nature of things.

Tribute to Allama Iqbal on his 144th Birth Anniversary

Psalm 13 Tune: Cheshire Scottish Metrical Psalter 1650

Worth Repeating

                             David Shrigley: Read Books!

O Hafez!

Do not try to solve the riddle of existence, Hafez! It is nothing but fables and enchantments.

Caveat Lector