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#53: The Page & The Screen: Literature & Film/TV
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by distinguished screenwriters Scott Teems (The Lowdown, Rectify) and Bradford Winters (Oz, Berlin Station, The Agency) to discuss the relationship between literature and the world of film and televisi...
Close-Reading Translations of the Odyssey
Early this past June, my granddaughter told me that, before seeing the movie of the Odyssey, which was coming out later in the summer, she wanted to read it. So I suggested we read it together—using what I think is the best translation: Emi...
“The Dust of Snow”
Here’s Robert Frost’s poem “The Dust of Snow”:
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock treeHas given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
Out of curi...
“The fragile intimacies of friendship and the heartbreak of their loss”
In her superb Carnaval, Susan L. Miller’s latest poetry collection, we find the fragile intimacies of friendship and the heartbreak of their loss, as well as—among other motifs—expansive poems about Mexico’s culture and people, a country sh...
For and Against Close Reading
I’m not sure how to respond to this poem by Emily Dickinson, and that’s because she seems to be implying in it that close reading is a death-dealing mistake:
Split the Lark—and you’ll find the Music—
Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolle...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Books grounded in a sense of "felt life" since 2013. Slant is an independent, not-for-profit literary press specializing in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, philosophy, theology, and belles lettres.
Brian Volck is an author and retired pediatrician who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of two books of poetry and a memoir, Attending Others.
I have a PhD in English Literature. My first published book was Words and Values, a close reading of popular language. Since then I've published widely on the spirituality of poetry in various journals and books.
writer living in Detroit
retired English teacher, Roman Catholic deacon, reader, writer, cartoonist
Gregory Wolfe is the publisher & editor of Slant Books. He is the author of Beauty Will Save the World, Intruding Upon the Timeless, The Operation of Grace, & other books. Bylines: Washington Post, Wall St Journal, America, Commonweal, & First Things
I'm a wife and mom outside DC. I also raise money for journalism and write nonfiction.
William E. Cain is the Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English at Wellesley College.
Lindsay Schlegel is the author of three books for adults and one for children. Her reviews, essays, and stories have appeared at Word on Fire, America, Aleteia, Dappled Things, The Windhover, Solum Press, and elsewhere. More: LindsaySchlegel.com
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