An Italian-American Writer & Poet with a Yankee Outsider Perspective
Among the top ten novels I listen to on disc over and over, Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding gives me the most sustained pleasure. I admire Welty’s long short stories and much shorter novel, “The Optimist’s Daughter,” which won the Pulitzer … Continued
There are some who stand back a little from their characters, bemused and thoughtful, smiling indulgently perhaps or with a worried frown on their faces. In this group belongs one of my favorite Southern writers, Eudora Welty, with her light, … Continued
It’s a “Misty Moisty Morning of real Chicago weather,” my mother used to recite, except we weren’t in Chicago but Charleston, South Carolina, and my mother, the Midwesterner, couldn’t help herself. Midwestern weather and geography overlay her view of our … Continued