LeliaJul 72 minBook 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.” -...
LeliaMay 21 minThe 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...
LeliaMar 19, 20222 minTrying and Losing in Fitzgerald's The BookshopPenelope Fitzgerald writes such quietly brutal books. Florence Green with her naivete and kindness says toward the end of The Bookshop,...
LeliaJan 16, 20223 minEudora Welty, Peter Schjeldahl + Bill PlotkinIn 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...
LeliaDec 20, 20213 minEudora Welty + Aries + GuiltI’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...
LeliaDec 16, 20215 minMemoir, Elderhood & SaturnHaving read Angela’s Ashes and The Liar’s Club in quick succession, I was beginning to think that the only enjoyable memoirs overflow...