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… time railing against either the high-brow or low-brow audiences that have remained indifferent to Settle’s work, … to academic critics for several compelling reasons. Vance points to her refusal “to follow fads in fiction writing”; I … Scapegoat, The Killing Ground —took shape over a span of 26 years, with each addition demanding that the nature of …

… Proposals and Advice Eric, our grandchild, our number one and … a son to my wife Milly and me, has called to say he will come to visit next weekend. He’ll want advice, some life … swimming, walking, bowling, doing what we can to keep our bodies from falling apart, but that too is beyond our control. …

Interruptions I long for some, even one would be a beginning, not this long flat stretch of just me and my improvising of waste, of a kind of heroic negligence that life does not appreciate. My loved one is wobbling—O creme de menthe! See, I am making my …

… For almost three generations, southern patriots have been complaining that history has been unfair to their section. … Carolina. By the first decade of our century the old soldiers on both sides seemed disposed to lay, down their arms. … between sections, not between right and wrong, the good points of the slavery system have been emphasized, the …

… by Jefferson himself—for his favorite sister, Jane, who died in 1765: Oh! Joanna puellarum optima! Oh! aevi viventis … Sit tibi terra laevis! Long, longeque valete. Accompanying the poem are Jefferson’s detailed plans for a … Staunton with the body of our dear little Eleanor.” [July 26, 1795; reference is to his granddaughter, the third child …