Friends, Our novel this month is by Lebanese writer, Hanan al-Shaykh, The Story of Zahra. Hala Abdelaziz will facilitate our discussion. We meet on Wednesday 27 June from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Center for…
Once an aging actress told [Abbé] Mugnier, “When I pass in front of my mirror, I cry out, ‘How beautiful I am!’ Is that a sin?” “No,” murmured the abbé, “It’s only an error.” –From…
Mary Shannon studied with me last year when she was a freshman at SLU. This year she has been in Chile in a program Katie Schlechter and Cheryl Sullivan experienced a while back. Mary just …
I am a big proponent of “Share the wealth.” Accordingly, I have asked our friend Kristen Andersen to share her important work on Islamic mysticism and liberation, the subject of her Master’s thesis in theological…
A friend in Haiti asked me to send her the following passage from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, and now I want to reread the whole novel again! Later, after getting used to Alyosha, Pyotr Alexandrovich…
with its three major conflicts brewing (“you’re on my side, aren’t you?”) and seven minor ones simmering (“he was a loser then, he’s even worse now”) the bride’s burning eyes (“there’s only one way to…
I had to take out A restraining order On “that summer feeling” It’s been haunting me
“He was always telling me to share my writing…” “You, too? He said that to me, like… weekly!” “Weekly? He’d badger me daily for a fortnight until I gave up.” “He was relentless.” “Verdad. Yep,…
Tomorrow may I come over to Sophia House Borrow your notebook Take it to my house Copy the pages you wrote And read to me at NW Coffee (Saturday 21 April) Return to Sophia House…
Three writing topics proposed by Sara Rendell: 1. If this is it, then what is it? 2. Dear Internal Critic, You Have 15 Minutes before I Ignore You 3. Something that surprised me today “If…