The desk set is made of green glass with a pattern of dark leaves. The label names it Tiffany. Erin Hunt read it in fascination and mulled over these fine opalescent boxes. They would hold ink and paper, stamps, pens and blotter ends. And what would someone write with them, […]
Read articleHerman Melville’s life takes on a new edge through women’s eyes
The maniacal sea captain, the mad-cap whaling ship, the crewmen from New England and the Ocean Islands sleeping peacefully in a lantern-lit tavern in New Bedford … Moby-Dick was a radical and visceral challenge when it came out, more than 150 years ago. Can the story hold as radical an edge today? Maybe, if women tell it.
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Melville and Hawthorne meet on Monument Mountain
On Monument Mountain, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne met in a thunderstorm more than 150 years ago and began a thunderous friendship.
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Mastheads writing residency brings writers outdoors in the Berkshires
“Like the giddy time I met and danced with my wife-to-be at that roof-deck party with a full moon rising above us, and I was amazed I could have that much fun sober. …” In the wake of a hurricane a paramedic is riding an ambulance back to the hospital. […]
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