Tag Archives: William Blake

What I Should Have Said at Book Group

Posted on October 19, 2026 by Kathy

Engraving by William Blake. Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust on Unsplash, The other night, three of us liked Nobel-winning Olga Tokarczuk’s 2009 novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. The other five attendees did not. They found … Continue reading →

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Exuberance Is Beauty

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Kathy

Father Dan Begin and I never talked about William Blake, the English Romantic poet, which may sound pretentious, but we were two old English majors who enjoyed hauling out our tattered copies of the Norton Anthology of English Literature on … Continue reading →

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Family, Fashion, and Freaks

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Kathy

Sarah Polley, a young actress and director, has created another one of those engrossing documentaries (like Still Bill or Searching for Sugar Man) that you want everyone to see because they’re so good. In carefully ordered sequences, she reveals secrets … Continue reading →

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