The Ghosts of Wrath

On the seventy-fifth anniversary of  John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, a celebration of the author’s revolutionary belief in familial loyalty and America’s disenfranchised poor.

At Home with Books

April 16: “”Blue pottery vases and bowls for flowers are most attractive, and certain blue books…will repeat and emphasize color.”

The Pulitzer Winners

Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. James Parker calls this Dickensian coming-of-age novel “an enveloping and slightly paralyzing literary experience, such that if you submit to it in the proper spirit your...

Obsessive Genius

April 15: “A page…will begin with some principles of astronomy, or the motion of the earth; then come the laws of sound…”

No Place like Home

Hello, and welcome.  Are you the director?  Oh, the PA. Oh fine.  Olivia.  You can call me Terri.  I spell it with an ‘i’ –not that you could tell from hearing it, of course. Oh, no — you don’t have to take your...