Tag: literature

  • Radio Show | Adrienne McDonnell

    Radio Show | Adrienne McDonnell

    Former University of California @ Berkeley Professor or Literature and Fiction, Adrienne McDonnell, discusses her debut novel, The Doctor and The Diva. So tune in.

  • “Marie Delaveaux Wilson”

    Edward P. Jones’ short story, Marie, centers on eighty-six-year-old Marie Delaveaux Wilson for whom the “…federal government…every now and again, as if in a whim…” asks “…her to come in so they can take another look at her…” (p. 229) At the Social Security office, and punctual for her eleven am appointment Marie waits until…

  • “Marie Delaveaux Wilson”

    Edward P. Jones’ short story, Marie, centers on eighty-six-year-old Marie Delaveaux Wilson for whom the “…federal government…every now and again, as if in a whim…” asks “…her to come in so they can take another look at her…” (p. 229) At the Social Security office, and punctual for her eleven am appointment Marie waits until…

  • “Young Lions”

    Edward P. Jones’ Young Lions opens with twenty-four-year old Caesar Matthews reading a note from his girlfriend, Carol, with whom he lives. Carol’s note, taped to a carton of milk in the refrigerator, and as on so many previous occasions, states “…she loves him with all her heart.” (p. 55) Manny calls. The owner of…

  • “Requiem on a Dark Night”

    In Edward P. Jones’ A Dark Night the not so apparent protagonist, Ida Garrett, arrives at the apartment of her neighbor, Carmena Boone, and finds another neighbor, Beatrice Atwell for whom she has been searching. Beatrice, Carmena and the two other elderly women, the two Frazier sisters are waiting for the minister, Reverend Dr. Sawyer,…

  • Transformation of a Father into a New Man

    Edward P. Jones’ A New Man displays the transformation of a man whose daughter runs away from home and does not return. The story opens with fifty-two-year-old Woodrow L. Cunningham arriving home early mid-afternoon, one day in late October to find his fifteen year-old daughter, Elaine, home from school and with two boys in her…

  • 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…