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A brilliant, iconoclastic new translation of the biblical book of Job emphasizes not Job's faithfulness, but his feistiness
Ann Kjellberg
16 hr
Marmee’s frenetic activity in Little Women reflects the reality of Abigail Alcott’s life, though not the fact that besides being a visionary mother she…
Ann Kjellberg
Mar 25 2
The food the March girls eat in Little Women is a fascinating fusion of the author’s biography and her imagination of family life, surprising us with i…
Ann Kjellberg
Mar 23 2
In 1956 the Times reported, “Harvard University announced today the appointment of Dr. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin as Professor of Astronomy. She is the f…
Ann Kjellberg
Mar 19
I am wrestling with my purpose here at my desk, as the world careens into an unprecedented piece of history as if into an iceberg. I grew up at a time …
Ann Kjellberg
Mar 17 9
I was skeptical when I started Paul Kerschen’s novel The Warm South, which imagines that the poet John Keats, after dying of tuberculosis in Rome in 18…
Ann Kjellberg
Mar 12
Formal restlessness can be understood as a signal trait of Greenwell’s fiction, a mix of daring and doubt over the shapes a novel might take, a daring …
Ann Kjellberg
Mar 4
In anticipating opening our town’s first library, we had ordered five hundred library cards. Three weeks after we opened, we had to order five hundred …
Ann Kjellberg
Feb 26 2
When Sue Halpern's remote country town lost its bookmobile, it looked like it would be without a library, but not for long
Ann Kjellberg
Feb 24
If writing is the heart of what you care about, then you have to do it and do it as well and as persistently as you can. It’s about a primary agreement…
Ann Kjellberg
Feb 16
The day I decided that writing was what I wanted to do I was working as a millwright, maintaining the engines of an overhead crane above four electric …
Ann Kjellberg
Feb 14
If you read no further than the first sentence of this post: please order your books online from this new site, Bookshop, instead of Amazon!
Ann Kjellberg
Feb 6
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