Acts of Hope

From Tillie Olsen's Silences (New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1978). In case it is not obvious, italics in black are my w...

The other night, on the PBS special on Zora Neale Hurston: "There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." *******...

"What is the whole of our existence," said Father Damien, practicing his sermon from the new pulpit, "but the sound of an app...

This isn't really about John Updike, may he rest in peace, but about the descriptions of John Updike on the radio. I found myself yellin...

A good op-ed on the need for a stimulus package for the arts in the new administration, by an old friend of the Acts of Hope family whose wo...

A good book for Thanksgiving. I won't have money to buy it or time to read it till heaven knows when, but I really want to. The New York...

One more proof that I am not functioning at full tilt: I somehow missed the announcement of this year's Nobel in literature ten days ago...

Thank Godde for friends who say things better than we can and have more time to say it. My friend Chris has posted a photo of and tribute to...

Her Grace flew in after some adventures involving a connecting flight at JFK, since there is no direct flight from London to Greensboro, and...

Even as I ponder a blog slowdown (you'll notice I am still writing at least once a day, so I haven't exactly slowed, and +Maya Pavlo...

Today is the birthday of the Russian-French painter Marc Chagall, one of my favorite artists. I have a small lithograph of the above in my ...

Salon has a poignant, thoughtful, sharp commentary by Phyllis Chesler on the very public mother-daughter tensions between the writers Rebe...

Guillermo del Toro , of "Pan's Labyrinth" fame, will make the film version of The Hobbit . And of course the French had the cu...