by Dwight Cathcart | Nov 27, 2011 | Assimilation
C and I have just come back from the eastern Connecticut shore where we joined extended family for Thanksgiving weekend. We had good food, good conversation, a good sense of belonging—all the things that are expected of such a weekend—and then we returned to Boston...
by Dwight Cathcart | Nov 21, 2011 | eBooks
I hear or read how sad it is that the publishing industry is collapsing. People resist ereaders. “I stare at a back-lit LED screen enough already.” There are a few things to remember. The publishing industry has not worked well for a lot of people. It has not...
by Dwight Cathcart | Nov 15, 2011 | In Search of Lost Time
Marcel, the narrator of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, is in Balbec, a resort on the north coast of France. We read this: One very hot afternoon, from inside the dining room [of the hotel], which was in half-darkness, sheltering from the sun behind...
by Dwight Cathcart | Nov 6, 2011 | Gay literature
Sometimes a work of art does not present itself so that we know who it is about. Maurice, by E. M. Forster, seems to be about Maurice Hall, and then it seems to be about Maurice and Clive Durham together, and it is only later that the reader discovers the novel is...
