My Àntonia with Chris Benfey
Some reading and watching suggestions that have come out of our reading group with Chris Benfey:
Minari, a film by Lee Isaac Chung (discussed here)
Past Lives, a film by Celine Song (discussed here)
Ben Taylor, Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather (discussed here)
Ben also joined us in conversation with Chris Benfey at the close of the group, recording here
On race:
Willa Cather, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, Toni Morrison Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (discussed here)
Joan Acocella, Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism (discussed here and here)
Greg Brown, “Early” (discussed here)
Willa Cather, “The Education You Have to Fight For” (discussed here)
Peter C. Meilaender’, author of the recent essay, “Willa Cather and the ‘Antique Virtues’” Wartime idealism and the search for meaning in her Pulitzer-winning novel ‘One of Ours,’” joined our concluding conversation.
Laird Hunt, whose essay on visiting Red Cloud appeared in his volume of essays, This Wide Terraqueous World, also joined our concluding conversation
Middlemarch with Mona Simpson
Michael Gorra, Portrait of a Novel (discussed here)
Clare Carlisle, The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life (discussed here)
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