Lelia
Book Review: Tom Nolan's Ross Macdonald: A Biography
“What the reader hopes most to see in a biography is the work of the intelligent scholar who also feels an affinity for his subject.” -...
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Lelia
- May 2
- 1 min
The Great Work of Saturn: Grave and Persistent Effort
“A Worn Path” is one of Eudora Welty’s most powerful short stories, and if you've read it, you know the epic journey Phoenix Jackson...
Lelia
- Mar 19, 2022
- 2 min
Trying and Losing in Fitzgerald's The Bookshop
Penelope Fitzgerald writes such quietly brutal books. Florence Green with her naivete and kindness says toward the end of The Bookshop,...
Lelia
- Jan 16, 2022
- 3 min
Eudora Welty, Peter Schjeldahl + Bill Plotkin
In The Optimist’s Daughter, the dark forces in the novel are Fay and her family, people “who never know the meaning of what has happened...
Lelia
- Dec 20, 2021
- 3 min
Eudora Welty + Aries + Guilt
I’m entranced by Eudora Welty right now. Reading her short story "Livvie," I’m awed by how much Welty does in just ten pages. In One...
Lelia
- Dec 16, 2021
- 5 min
Memoir, Elderhood & Saturn
Having read Angela’s Ashes and The Liar’s Club in quick succession, I was beginning to think that the only enjoyable memoirs overflow...
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