“Sometime in your life you may have to work some suck ass job.”
Students in my Hawthorne class flip Spring Break, journey from Florida to Massachusetts. In ten feet of snow. They make this extraordinary video about The Scarlet Letter, “The Custom House” and dead-end work. They email me this picture of a red letter “A,” drizzled onto Hawthorne’s grave.
On October 6, 1723 a young runaway named Benjamin Franklin walked down a Delaware River wharf, stepped onto dry land,...
Like most people, I vividly remember the morning of September 11, 2001. And like many people, my memories do not...
If you were a young scholar of American Literature back in the 1990s, most likely, you were a new historicist. To be a...
