Category: Anjuelle Floyd Author Blog
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Lost Opportunities on an Orange Line Train to Ballston
Edward P. Jones’, An Orange Line Train to Ballston, is about lost opportunities, how they come to pass and what occurs when one abandons possibilities, or more importantly how we can react in having allowed them to pass by. Each day Marvella Watkins, her daughter Avis, and Marvella’s two sons, Marcus and Marvin, ride the…
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The Sunday Following Mother’s Day
Edward P. Jones’, The Sunday Following Mother’s Day, chronicles Madeleine William’s search for the reason, or rather the man who killed her mother. The story opens with a description of the silence in which the murder occurred—a night in early April when Madeleine was four-years-old, and her brother, ten. The two not learn of what…
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Transformation on ‘F’ Street
Edward P. Jones’s story, A Butterfly on ‘F’ Street is about transformation—a change that occurs between two women that love the same man, now deceased. Jones uses metaphor and setting to emphasize the change. The story opens with Mildred Harper crossing ‘F’ street on her way from Morton’s to Woolworth’s. On reaching the island or…
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Moses – a Man of Emotions in “The Known World” by Edward P. Jones
“ The evening his master died he worked again well after he ended the day for the other adults, his own wife among them, and sent them back with hunger and tiredness to their cabins… When he, Moses, finally freed himself of the ancient and brittle harness that connected him to the oldest mule his…
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The Business of Learning One’s Craft
Today I received an e-mail containing the announcement of a former editor at a New York Publisher, stating that the editor would be reviewing 500 manuscripts for the next 6-8 months. Those interested could e-mail the editor at the address given in the announcement and receive guidelines. Curious, and having heard of this up-coming announcement,…