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… The Wasteland (1922). In the margins were exclamation points my father had drawn, which were meant to indicate … and support myself by teaching college, because I knew I’d die if I couldn’t write, but I didn’t want to die because I … still spoke and thought highly of her. On October 26, 1775, Wheatley sent a poem and letter to George …

… gift hilarious, and wore the socks proudly with his new sandals right through to Halloween. I laughed, too, pretending … not to find it disturbing and macabre. His toes had become grotesque with old age, as toes do when you approach … in a sports bra who flirted with him at the gym. To his buddies Lyle and Ron and other random neighbors strolling by …

… more precisely a birth, not a rebirth.” Certainly nothing comparable had happened before in the South that could … are the instruments of the historian. Typically history deals with groups rather than individuals—with nations, … begun to crush feudal England. The Histories and Tragedies of Shakespeare record the death of the old régime, and …

… There were six of them, the best and bravest of the hero’s companions. Turning back from his post in the bows, Odysseus … is an accurate account of particular events, But it might also strike the reader as being ‘true’ with regard to … all Greek, all French, and most Elizabethan tragedies are found wanting. Only the best of Shakespeare can …

… by the new teacher grinning back at them and repeating, “Welcome! Welcome! Nice to see you!” It was early September … some “studious leisure,” get my novel written. But it was also the height of what came to be known as the European … tense. You were an air-conditioning repairman. You once studied medicine. Whatever credentials or skills the guys had …