Pretzels and Bullfights: They Who Tread the Path of Labor

September 3, 2012

This week’s edition of Pretzels and Bullfights is a bit of a special. For those of you abroad, what you …

Pretzels and Bullfights: Advice to an Old Man

August 27, 2012

So how many of you know today that name of Thomas Flatman? A writer whose memory has, perhaps, degraded in …

August 13, 2012

Mary Anne Evans, or rather, George Eliot as she is more likely to be known, was a writer’s writer of …

August 6, 2012

Today’s featured poet is a figure out of modern day Iran: the legendary Hafez. Born of the 14th century, this …

July 30, 2012

Last week’s poet, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, seems to have been something of an embattled poet on our own fair forums. …