This link has been bookmarked by 8 people . It was first bookmarked on 01 Mar 2010, by Ahniwa Ferrari.
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17 Oct 11
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10 Nov 10
pajwtrishJoyce Carol Oates--has written more novels than most people can count
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Patricia WilsonJoyce Carol Oates--has written more novels than most people can count
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08 Mar 10
Katie Day<< For even as a young child I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
What is most striking in the children’s library are the shelves and shelves of books—bookcases lining the walls—books -
06 Mar 10
Yee Sian Ng"Writers, particularly novelists, are linked to place. It's impossible to think of Charles Dickens and not to think of Dickens' London; impossible to think of James Joyce and not to think of Joyce's Dublin; and so with Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor-each is inextricably linked to a region, as to a language-dialect of particular sharpness, vividness, idiosyncrasy. We are all regionalists in our origins, however "universal" our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root-almost literally."
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01 Mar 10
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I am an eager child of 7 or 8 and this is in the mid-1940s. The library is a beautiful building like no other I’ve seen close up, an anomaly in this city block beside the dull red brick of the YMCA to one side and a dentist’s office to the other; across the street is Lockport High School, another older, dull-brick building. The library—which, at my young age, I could not have known was a WPA-sponsored project that transformed the city of Lockport—has something of the look of a Greek temple; not only is its architecture distinctive, with elegantly ascending steps, a portico and four columns, a facade with six large, rounded, latticed windows and, on top, a kind of spire, but the building is set back from the street behind a wrought-iron fence with a gate, amid a very green jewel-like lawn.
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