Why Bradbury Fought for Fahrenheit
An “exquisite irony” that happened to Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 upon its first publication in 1953 was that edited, censored versions of it (with drugs and profanity removed) began circulating the markets. This was without Bradbury’s knowledge, until 1979 when some teachers and students noticed the difference in their classroom copies, and it reached Bradbury’s…
The Sylvanian Family
The image of the Sylvanian family (or Calico Critters are they’re now called) rose to my mind as I began reading the first few chapters of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. The Calico Critters are a family of bunnies, squirrels, and other tiny animal figurines that are clothed like pioneers and dwell in the daintiest…
The House, the Room, and the Soul
This has been my final fall semester at Rhodes College and I can confidently say that it was filled from top to bottom with Edith Wharton. I read House of Mirth in the summer and then dedicated the semester to analyzing it for my senior seminar paper, and I just finished The Age of Innocence…