Tag: Literature

Some Lessons From Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’

Around the age of 55, I discovered I could no longer trust myself to read certain poems to my students without the risk of tears. I don’t recollect what poem I was reading aloud to the class on that day of revelation. What I knew at the time was that my voice was cracking and…


Wholesome Life Lessons for All in ‘On the Art of Writing’ by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

Last year, while thumbing through books in my local thrift shop, I stumbled upon an intriguing book called “On the Art of Writing” by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. It’s a simple paperback published in 1946. (The book was first published in 1916.)  The book is a series of lectures that Quiller-Couch presented to students at Cambridge…