A teacher of mine, the late John Gardener, once said that there are only two plots in all of literature. You go on a journey or the stranger comes to town. Or, more humorously, as Stanley Elkin once describe science fiction, you go there or they come here. I've written about this … [Read more...]
More Reflections
It was many years ago when I was sitting on the island of Crete that I began to think about landscape and literature. I'd brought with me, among other books, a copy of the Odyssey and it occured to me as I sat there, staring out into the Aegean that a circuitous journey such as … [Read more...]
Reflections on Landscape and Literature
This summer when I was traveling in the Basque Country in Spain I thought about how much landscape and literature go hand in hand for me. I'd brought with me a copy of THE SUN ALSO RISES and was reading the parts that took place in San Sebastian and Pamplona (the best parts of … [Read more...]
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