Photo by Matt Sumi Jeffrey Overstreet is an award-winning film critic, author, and editor. He is the author of a four-book fantasy series called The Auralia Thread, which begins with Auralia’s Colors and ends with the recently published The Ale Boy’s Feast, and a “memoir of dangerous moviegoing” called Through a Screen Darkly. His writing …
There is a very fine discussion on NPR about my friends at St. Jerome’s in suburban Washington. St. Jerome’s is a Catholic school that has turned itself around and gained momentum by turning to the classical tradition and it’s a beautiful thing they are doing. When I spent three days with them last summer I …
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A letter to The New Yorker in 2009 does a fine job defending the value of reading very good literature very closely in order to become a better writer. It also helps define at least two things a “creative writing” course can do. The letter is a response to a review of Mark McGurl’s The …
