by Lucy A. Snyder | Jul 13, 2015 | Columns
“The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe tells the tale of Prince Prospero who, when hemorrhagic fever rages through in his kingdom, retreats behind the walls of his castle and hosts a ball for his nobles while they all wait for the disease to burn itself out...
by Wayne Edwards | Jul 1, 2015 | Columns
So here’s the thing: When I lived out West I got used to the Rocky Mountains as a back-up for the multitudinous ranges in Alaska. It worked pretty well. The Rockies (The Winds, The Tetons…you get it) are great. Back in the East now, a place where I expect to stay for...
by Wayne Edwards | Jun 15, 2015 | Columns
Having now settled back in to my place in the northeast and having left behind for good the dusty heat of a certain plains state, I set my sights on whatever in the world comes next. Should I drop everything and volunteer on Bernie Sander’s presidential campaign for...
by Wayne Edwards | Jun 3, 2015 | Columns
For the love of god, why do I keep moving? Back now on the gentle shores of Lake Champlain I feel pretty good. If there really is a conflict between East and West in the US, put on the East roster. Now and always. But I digress. If I think back to just a few...
by Lucy A. Snyder | May 31, 2015 | Columns
Joseph Conrad’s novella The Secret Sharer tells the story of a young sea captain who aids Leggatt, the mate of the Sephora who is on the lam after killing a sailor. This novella offers a tighter and much faster-paced narrative than Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and I...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Apr 20, 2015 | Columns
I realized recently that I never actually read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and needed to fix that. It’s a book whose narrative I’ve seen so many times in various incarnations that I had the illusion that surely I’d already...
