“What Makes a Poem?” created by Melissa Kovac for TedEd, discusses very briefly the components and history of various poetic forms. The video (5 min.) looks through history and considers how some social media forms use compressed language like poetry. Music too becomes poetry. About four minutes in, the video refers to the Greek word […]
Paris Review Interview: Ernest Hemingway, the Art of Fiction No. 21
Because we read Joan Didion who mentions Ernest Hemingway and because I also love his writing, I’m adding a link to our website for the Paris Review interview with Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway was an American novelist. He was also a journalist and lived in Paris after volunteering as an an ambulance driver in the Spanish […]
Paris Review Interview, The Art of Fiction, No. 78: James Baldwin
In his lengthy 1984 Paris Review interview, which you won’t be able to access unless you go through our library website, James Baldwin discusses how he went from being a Baptist minister in Harlem from the age of 14-17, to being a writer of fiction and essays. One of his novels, If Beale Street Could Talk, […]
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