We’re Stopping to Smell the Summer Flowers
BY NQ
July 2019
Back next week with a cycle of new stuff!
Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Iceberg
BY Matthew Hollett
I’VE BEEN READING After Icebergs with a Painter, Rev. Louis L. Noble’s imaginative travelogue from a voyage around Newfoundland in 1859. It’s like following a jet-setting paparazzo’s Instagram – except instead of celebrity photos, it’s full of nineteenth-century prose portraits of icebergs.
Decidedly disinterested in Oscar buzz (“I feel like life is the prize,” Alice Walker once said), the author told me that she hopes the film prompts viewers to embrace “The Gospel According to Shug.”
BY Evelyn C White
In his early review of the epistolary novel that would later win the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, a New York book critic declared The Color Purple a work of…
Tara Bryan: an exacting sense of play
“When you hold one of Tara Bryan’s books in your hands, immediately you sense a remarkable intelligence at work. For Tara, books were never just simple objects—they were journeys, they…