Feeding on the Spectres in Books
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions …
Category: American literature
On “The Innocents Abroad” and “The Odyssey”
I’ve been reading Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad for a literary book club. I’d never read it before, although I love great travel writing like John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley, Jonathan Raban’s Old Glory (an…