American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)

H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 2: The Horror at Red Hook (2)

Part two of my review of THE HORROR AT RED HOOK by H. P. Lovecraft. Ignoring this story due to his racism, compartmentalizing his views on immigrants, or saying Lovecraft was just a man of his time will not due...and this story shows why.

Episode 429: Aldo Leopold: Writings 1938-1948

The third and final episode looking at Aldo Leopold's professional and private ecology writings. These cover the period of the Second World War and Leopold's growing awareness of the depth of the crisis in ecology.

H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 1: The Horror At Red Hook (Part 1)

The first half of my review of THE HORROR AT RED HOOK, by H. P. Lovecraft. This is a story that pulls together most of the threads from his earliest horror writings. Despite its nasty language about immigrants, it is essential reading for those interested in his philosophy.

Episode 438: Aldo Leopold: Writings 1933-1937

A look at some more of Aldo Leopold's professional and private writings on ecology from the period when he began his work in Wisconsin, coinciding with the Great Depression and New Deal programs on conservation.

Episode 427: Aldo Leopold: Writings 1917-1933

Having finished A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC, we will now go back to look at Aldo Leopold's writings from the start of his career in 1917 until 1933, when he published a book on game management.

H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 4: Episode 12: Poems, Later 1920s

In this episode of the H. P. Lovecraft Book Club I look at a bunch of horror poems Lovecraft wrote in the later 1920s.

Episode 426: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac (Part 2)

This episode completes my review of A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC by Aldo Leopold. The second part of the book of essays explores the human impact on ecology and proposes a solution, the Land Ethic.

H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 4: Episode 11: Supernatural Horror in Literature (2)

The second part of my review of "Supernatural Horror in Literature" looks at the bulk of the text. Most of the essay is surveys of the major works in different periods and regions. SHIL will remain a useful guide for readers of 18th, 19th, and early 20th century horror.

H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 4: Episode 10: Supernatural Horror in Literature

In this episode of the H. P. Lovecraft Book Club I examine "Supernatural Horror in Literature", Lovecraft's brilliant survey of horror writing. I focus on his overall philosophy as detailed in the first chapter of this book-length essay.

Episode 425: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac, Part 1

Episode one of my new series on the writings of Aldo Leopold. To begin we will explore his masterpiece A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC. It remains one of the greatest works of American ecology. In later episodes, we will look at his professional writings and journals.

H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 4: Episode 9: Letters January 1929 to June 1929

The end of this series on H. P. Lovecraft's letters. This set is a doozy with some monster letters to Frank B. Long, Wilfred Talman, and Woodburn Prescott Harris.

Episode 424: James Agee: Shorter Fiction

In this final episode on James Agee, I look at his shorter fiction, including "Morning Watch" and "Death in the Desert". They are all pretty excellent and worth checking out.

H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 4: Episode 8: Letters January 1928-December 1928

Lovecraft's letters in 1928 ranged in topics from literature to modernism to race and class. I review some of these letters as I continue to work my way through the second volume of The Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft.

Episode 423: James Agee:Death in the Family (2)

In this episode I finish up my look at James Agee's novel A DEATH IN A FAMILY. I find the novel a bit more interesting in the second half as Agee explores issues of race, childhood, and maturation.

H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 4: Episode 7: Letters October 1927-February 1928

The highlight of the H. P. Lovecraft letters from the winter of 1927-28 is Lovecraft's account of a story-length Roman dream. He mediates quite a lot about the Romans and their history, in seeming preparation for his debates with Robert E. Howard.

Episode 422:James Agee: Death in the Family (1)

The first part of my review of James Agee's DEATH IN THE FAMILY. This posthumously published novel won the Pulitzer Prize. I found it to be of interest, but a bit of a slog.