This month's story is F. Scott Fitzgerald's “Babylon Revisited,” published in 1931. The story is celebrated as one of Fitzgerald's best, as well as one of his most autobiographical. Many of the events and characters of the story mirror elements of Fitzgerald's life of him: the years of drunken indulgence in Paris, the lost wife (though Zelda
In one of the most acclaimed performances of his artistic career, Daniel Day-Lewis portrays President Abraham Lincoln in one of the most difficult political fights of his life. At the beginning of the year 1865–and with the American Civil War drawing to a close–Lincoln uses every political machination in his power to achieve the
honey-cornbread-recipe Comments : This recipe is really fun and easy to make and it needs honey! We hope you have enjoyed the story for this month “The Beeman” by Laurie Krebs & Valeria Cis… and also your homemade honey cornbread. See you next session! — Family Book Club: American Family Food Stories The Family Book Club will
This month's story is William Faulkner's “That Evening Sun,” first published in 1931, two years after The Sound and the Fury and five years before Absalom, Absalom! These two novels share a common denominator with “Evening Sun”: all three relate incidents in the lives of the Compson family, and are narratively guided by Quentin Compson,
Milk (My name is Harvey Milk in Spanish) is a film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black that tells the life of the politician Harvey Milk, a defender and activist of the civil rights of homosexuals. Milk was the first openly gay person to be elected to political office.
Comments by Nanor Rose Demirjian: This recipe was really fun and easy to make. I especially like the part where you flip the pancakes when they're cooking. I ate my pancakes with maple syrup on top and sliced strawberries that I already had at home. It turned out delicious and was the perfect Sunday brunch for
Our first story of 2017 is Ernest Hemmingway's “Big Two-Hearted River,” one of his most widely anthologized short stories. First published in 1925 when Hemmingway was twenty-six years old, the story is perhaps the most technically pure example of Hemmingway's “iceberg theory” of modernist prose, which proposes that, just as the visible type of an