Living on an Acre

Living on an Acre

by | Dec 18, 2009 | Books

Chris at the Big E Connecticut writers’ table with ‘Living on an Acre’ Go Forward by Going Back in Time Homesteading fever gripped many Americans in the 1970s. The movement got its fuel from energy shortages, the environmental movement, and a...

Flannery O’Connor

by | Dec 18, 2009 | Get This

Flannery O’Connor had to “write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don’t know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.” I have little in common with Flannery, much as I’d like to, except this requirement to write...

The Neglect of Obituaries

by | Dec 17, 2009 | Get This

As Americans become more accustomed to pictures of dead bodies in the media, we are told less and less of the details of ordinary citizens’ deaths. Only major newspapers, like The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, and the Los Angeles Times, still pay writers to...

Buildings Scattered in the Green Spaces

by | Dec 4, 2009 | Get This

“As one follows the main highways or railroads between Boston and Washington, D.C., one hardly loses sight of built-up areas, tightly woven residential communities, or powerful concentrations of manufacturing plants. Flying this same route one discovers, on the other...