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Ploughshares Blog

Articles

  • “Mark Twain and Literary Caves,” September 2016.
  • “Looking for Anne of Green Gables in Prince Edward Island,” August 2016.
  • “An Angel Choir, Titans of Industry, and a Writers’ Festival: Western New York’s Chautauqua Institution,” July 2016.
  • “A Setting out of a Horror Story: Reverse Mirdered at the Red Rim Motel”
  • “Laura Ingalls Wilder and Samuel Worthen Ingalls: Discovering the Roots of Favorite Childhood Books in Cuba, NY,” May 2016.
  • “Roadkill Roundup: Wildlife as Metaphor,” April 2016.
  • “Donde Esta el Bano? Bathrooms in Literature,” March 2016.
  • “The Johnstown Flood in Art and Literature,” February 2016.
  • “Armchair Traveling Through History: The Orphan Trains in Literature,” January 2016.
  • “A Castle in Our Backyard: Activating Imaginations in Ireland,” December 2015.
  • “Lost in Translation: A Journey on the Li River,” November 2015.
  • “Changes of Scale by which We Measure Ourselves Anew: The Appeal of Tiny Objects and Compact Forms,” October 2015.
  • “Upton Sinclair, the Spirit of Sophocles, and Me: A Visit to Lily Dale,” September 2015.
  • “Deep Valley Homecoming and Laurapalooza: Keeping Classic Children’s Literature Alive,” August 2015.
  • “Fallingwater, the Rock Opera: the Collaboration of Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Hall,” July 2015.
  • “Telling the Stories of the Dead: Louisville’s Cave Hill Cemetery,” June 2015.
  • “A Ripple Effect that Turned into a Tidal Wave: The Journey of a Discarded Book,” May 2015.
  • ’That Beruffled Little Wet Apron’ or ‘This Vast and Prodigious Cadence of Water’?: Bicycling at Niagara Falls,”April 2015.
  • “The Zippo Museum in Bradford PA and Zippo Sightings in Literature,” March 2015.
  • “On the Road with ‘The Lady of Shalott,'” February 2015.
  • “Borne Back Ceaselessly into the Past: Visiting Writers’ Graves,” January 2015.
  • “A Victorian Legacy in the Midwest: Hair in Art and Literature,” December 2014.
  • “On the Trail of L. Frank Baum,” November 2014.

Reviews

  • Review of Sherrie Flick’s Whiskey, Etc.: Short (Short) Stories
  • Review of Joe Gisondi’s Monster Trek
  • Review of The Pittsburgh Anthology edited by Eric Boyd
  • Review of Lori Jakiela’s Belief is its own Kind of Truth, Maybe
  • Review of Gallagher Lawson’s The Paper Man

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