“Flannery O’Connor’s fiction also explores this distinctly Southern paradox through the symbol of the “old child”. Like Faulkner, she creates child characters who are disillusioned by the inactivity and lack of belief in their parent’s generation and subsequently construct their identity on the model of an elderly figure, only to suffer a tug of loyalties
Monthly Archives: May 2009
I can’t remember the first book trailer I saw. But I know it was in late 2005/early 2006 – and consisted of a series of quirky photos set to music and subtitles with a note on the end that went something like Coming in May 2006. Well, they kept coming and these days some rival
In the U.S. Mother’s Day had it’s origin in West Virginia. Did you know that? The modern Mother’s Day holiday was created by Anna Jarvis of Grafton, West Virginia, as a day to honor mothers and motherhood. Growing up, I must have seen this photo before. But I don’t remember it – the way only
The Guardian asks you to write the first 150 words of a novel for the chance to win a hotel stay in London with Orange award ceremony tickets, books and a Blackberry The Guardian has teamed with Kate Mosse, the author of Labyrinth and co-founder and honorary director of the Orange prize, to offer budding
