Jean Seberg
I've taken a large number of my most successful blog posts and compiled them into a eBook that I offer for free on my main website. It's also available on Kindle for the cheapest price I can assign there, 99 cents. It includes essays in which I propose solutions to historical riddles such as the Shugborough Inscription, the Last Words of Julius Caesar, the fate of Spartacus, and even why we have chins. I include an abundant amount of essays on matters related to the Latin language, as well as two short stories I wrote years ago. I explain in the introduction of this book that some of these items could probably have been turned into academic articles, if I were still interested in publishing my ideas in those formal channels. But I prefer nowadays to write my thoughts in a more popular voice and I believe they will find a larger readership on my blog than they ever would have buried in an academic journal. So if you've ever enjoyed one of my posts, I hope you'll find other things to inform and entertain you in the book that you may not have previously read. For the cover art I use as background an image from Unconscious Rivals (1893), by one of my favorite artists, Lawrence Alma-Tadema. The combination of classical imagery, the explosion of color, and the appearance of the pensive woman seemed perfect to accent the overall content of my book--my thoughts and theories on mysteries of history, life, and language.
“Who is your favorite writer?” a Famous (Now Dead) White Male Writer asked during an interview on a book tour while I scribbled everything he said in a notebook. “Thomas Hardy,…
On Sunday night I wrote about Bryan Doerries’s All That You’ve Seen Here Is God: New Versions of Sophocles and Aeschylus. Readership of that post was sparse. Disappointing, because my …
On Sunday night I wrote about Bryan Doerries’s All That You’ve Seen Here Is God: New Versions of Sophocles and Aeschylus. Readership of that post was sparse. Disappointing, because my …
The ice palace in David Lean’s fiilm Dr. Zhivago
A short history of Buddhism, with special focus on its introduction and development in Japan.
My husband spotted the Little Free Library as we were driving home. It’s on our street. ‘Oh my God!” I made him stop the car. I raced out to look at the books. The Little Free Lib…
Des destinations en dehors des sentiers battus.
