As I read through the ancient classics, I don’t normally dwell on how it is that this particular epic poem or that drama came to rest in my hands after thousands of years. In the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Swerve: How The World Became Modern, Stephen Greenblatt offers […]
This essay was part of the 2016 Deal Me In Reading Challenge, where I read a short story, essay, or poem every single week. Each item on my reading list was assigned to a playing card, and every Friday I picked a card at random […]
“To study literature is to study what people thought, did, believed, suffered for, and argued about in the past. This is history.” ~Susan Wise Bauer [emphasis added] Alongside The Project, I’ll be reading Bauer’s The History of… series in parallel. Bauer writes the chapters themselves […]