Coming of age

Christine Longford’s Making Conversation Persephone No. 83 (1931)

Buried In Print2014-03-09T12:19:39-04:00

Making Conversation is, for me, one of those Persephones, like Miss Pettigrew and Miss Buncle, that are readily recommendable: it’s the sort of book that will appeal to a wide variety of readers and has little to discourage. And, just as these books do have more serious ideas beneath their

Christine Longford’s Making Conversation Persephone No. 83 (1931)Buried In Print2014-03-09T12:19:39-04:00

Jennifer Baszile’s The Black Girl Next Door (2009)

Buried In Print2014-07-11T16:33:00-04:00

Even though I actually finished reading this memoir last week, it seems fitting to launch February's blog, on the first day of Black History Month, with bookchat about this memoir, penned by the woman who was the first black woman to teach history at Yale University, as an assistant professor

Jennifer Baszile’s The Black Girl Next Door (2009)Buried In Print2014-07-11T16:33:00-04:00

Ethel Wilson’s Hetty Dorval (1947)

Buried In Print2014-02-27T15:25:14-05:00

It's still early, the winter morning that I begin reading Hetty Dorval, and the train is leaving the station hesitatingly, in the dark and snowless cold. I have my other book in my lap, my fun read, the sort of read that will be perfectly absorbing even after the bulk

Ethel Wilson’s Hetty Dorval (1947)Buried In Print2014-02-27T15:25:14-05:00