Wired Love
-… — .-.. -. is how we first meet the romantic interest in Ella Cheever Thayer’s 1880 novel Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes. “Just a noise,” claims our lead Nattie, a telegraphist who comes to rely on that noise for daily comfort. We read. She hears. With a moment, Thayer has demonstrated (…)
Trumpular
As I write this, the world is waking to news of Trump’s indictment. It’s a moment many Americans stopped anticipating long ago, attuned as we were to the never ending cycle of outraged media anchors, pontificating legal experts, and promises that this time, things were different. As they were with the Mueller report. As they (…)
A year in Provence, by Peter Mayle
Could anything sound more appealing to those of us ripped away from break and planted in lecture seats? With A Year in Provence, his 1989 memoir about slow living in the south of France, Peter Mayle has this and many more ways to inspire envy in anyone with obligations. For the modern expat crowd, he (…)