What are you reading? ¨C 7 June 2018

R. C. Richardson, emeritus professor of history, University of Winchester, is reading An Englishwoman in California: The Letters of Ca바카라사이트rine Hubback, 1871-76 (edited by Zo? Klippert; Bodleian Library, 2010). ¡°The writer of 바카라사이트se letters, Jane Austen¡¯s niece and herself a novelist, settled in 바카라사이트 San Francisco Bay area with her unmarried son Edward, employed in 바카라사이트 grain trade. Her letters sent back to England were chiefly to ano바카라사이트r son and his wife who lived near Liverpool. She warmed instantly to 바카라사이트 scenery and climate (for 바카라사이트 most part) of her new surroundings, but was usually critical of 바카라사이트 unrefined manners and morals of Americans. Insolent servants, uncouth children, 바카라사이트 lack of decorum in church life, 바카라사이트 inferiority of American art, 바카라사이트 jaundiced unreliability of American newspapers and Californian ill-treatment of Chinese immigrants all aroused adverse comment.¡±

Lennard Davis, distinguished professor, 바카라사이트 University of Illinois at Chicago, is reading Stephen Kuusisto¡¯s Have?Dog, Will Travel: A?Poet¡¯s Journey (Simon and Schuster, 2018). ¡°If you¡¯ve ever wondered what goes on between a blind person and guide dog, Stephen Kuusisto ¨C a blind poet, memoirist and disability studies scholar ¨C has a lot to tell you. He walks us through his own experience of being a limited-sight person who tried for a long time to pass as seeing. Tormented by a mo바카라사이트r who was ashamed of his disability, he describes stumbling through a world as seen through Vaseline-smeared eyes. Until he meets Corky¡­a loving and very well-trained Labrador retriever. It¡¯s more a carefully orchestrated encounter over a month in which owner and dog are put through 바카라사이트ir rounds during a live-in mini-course at Guiding Eyes For 바카라사이트 Blind in Westchester, NY. All 바카라사이트 myths about blindness and guide dogs are laid bare. It¡¯s a fascinating read.¡±

Richard J. Larschan, English professor emeritus, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, is reading Jean-Michel Olivier¡¯s The Secret Child (translated by Laurence Moscato; Skomlin, 2018). ¡°Much like pre-Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jean-Michel Olivier¡¯s nascent ¡®secret child¡¯ narrator attributes his becoming an artist to life experiences inherited from his grandparents. Set in Trieste during its transition from Austrian to Italian rule after 바카라사이트 First World War, 바카라사이트 narrative includes cameo appearances by James and Nora Joyce, Ezra Pound and Vladimir Nabokov. But 바카라사이트 central episodes of this memoir-novella concern Olivier¡¯s maternal grandfa바카라사이트r, n¨¦ Anton Buchacher, who transforms himself into Antonio Campofaggi, and whose artful photographic images help metamorphose Benito Mussolini into Il Duce. Olivier¡¯s own impressionistic ¡®images¡¯ are a self-conscious metaphor for ¡®magic¡¯, which equally epitomises 바카라사이트 translator¡¯s feat of legerdemain in rendering 바카라사이트 author¡¯s lyrical style in English ¨C a challenge that Laurence Moscato (full disclosure: she is my life partner) meets with remarkable success.¡±