There were deep green bushes and rough patches of grass, the unripe strawberries wore their white crowns, cotton bolls sprouted in between the cracked pavement. They reminded me of your beard, that could never grow evenly. I remember a grocer in his truck selling watermelons and you asking for the sweetest one, so that weContinue reading “St. Champaign – Short story”
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Review: The Broken Places by Russell Franklin
In his moving debut novel, The Broken Places, Russell Franklin tells the story of Ernest Hemingway’s youngest child, who was known variously as Gregory or Gloria, and lived from 1931–2001. From the tumultuous ’30s to the end of the 20th century, the reader is taken on a serpentine journey, punctuated by rejection and resilience, despair and hope.Continue reading “Review: The Broken Places by Russell Franklin”
We are all bitched from the start: A Review of the Hemingway Letters, Volume 5.
When one thinks of Ernest Hemingway, two images usually spring to mind. There is the familiar Ernest of the 1920s in Paris: youthful, energetic, courageous and fearless, with dimples in his cheeks; an image perpetuated by the author himself in his posthumous memoir A Moveable Feast. Then there is the seminal image of Papa Hemingway inContinue reading “We are all bitched from the start: A Review of the Hemingway Letters, Volume 5.”
Looking at Ruins of Youth: A Review of Donna Tartt’s ‘The Secret History’
★★★☆☆ Chapter 1 of The Secret History begins with a thump, dynamically, boisterously: “Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that snowy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbidContinue reading “Looking at Ruins of Youth: A Review of Donna Tartt’s ‘The Secret History’”
Of Ivory & Gold 