One December evening, when 13-year-old Marta crosses the frozen Lake Superior and reaches the home she shares with her father, she finds a woman standing at their door. As Marta approaches, she realizes the woman, who looks like a tropical bird caught in the snow, is her mother who'd abruptly left them six years before. Marta hopes this is a ......
What I feel most moved to write, that is banned, - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot."" Herman Melville wrote these words as he struggled to survive as a failing novelist. Between 1853 and 1856, he did write ""the other way,"" working exclusively for magazines. He earned more money from his stories than from the ......
Surviving Modern Times in Early Twentieth-Century Vermont
There is a stubborn myth that has persisted for almost two centuries: the narrative of the abandoned farm in the rural American northeast. In?Hill Farms, historian Dona Brown confronts this myth of rural decline with a focus on Jamaica, Vermont, a small town in the hills west of Brattleboro. Through this town's history, she reveals a more complex ......
Surviving Modern Times in Early Twentieth-Century Vermont
There is a stubborn myth that has persisted for almost two centuries: the narrative of the abandoned farm in the rural American northeast. In?Hill Farms, historian Dona Brown confronts this myth of rural decline with a focus on Jamaica, Vermont, a small town in the hills west of Brattleboro. Through this town's history, she reveals a more complex ......
Poems that question the world with tenderness and restless introspection In I Love You But I Don't Speak Your Language, brushes with the profound may lead to brushes with the mundane, or vice versa. Cause and effect become unreasoned and transcendent, at times lifting the arbitrary into the sublime or the sublime into happenstance. ......
Natalia Correia lived one of the most productive and flamboyant lives in the history of Portuguese culture. In June 1950 -- a month bracketed by Senator Margaret Chase Smith's denunciation of McCarthyism and the outbreak of the Korean conflict -- Correia made her first visit to the United States. Moving from Boston, coastal Maine, and New Bedford, ......
Black Writers and the Development of Modern Outbreak Narratives
An examination of early American literature that highlights how racial divides exacerbated-and were exacerbated by-the spread of infection In April of 1721, the HMS Seahorse arrived in Boston from the West Indies, causing a smallpox epidemic that would plague the city for the next year. Of its 12,000 inhabitants, nearly fifty percent were ......
Black Writers and the Development of Modern Outbreak Narratives
An examination of early American literature that highlights how racial divides exacerbated-and were exacerbated by-the spread of infection In April of 1721, the HMS Seahorse arrived in Boston from the West Indies, causing a smallpox epidemic that would plague the city for the next year. Of its 12,000 inhabitants, nearly fifty percent were ......
The Promise and Peril of Self-Publishing in the Digital Book Era
Uncovering race, gender, and sexual biases in popular self-publishing platforms The average reader need not go far in a bookstore before, knowingly or not, they encounter authors who started their careers by self-publishing prior to achieving commercial success. Examples include Margaret Atwood, Andy Weir, Colleen Hoover, Anna Todd, E. L. ......
