April 8, 2026April 7, 2026 Stuart Mitchner

Pynchon’s Masterpiece — Why Now, Why Again and Again

April 1, 2026March 31, 2026 Stuart Mitchner

A Letter from Jane Austen: No Fooling

March 25, 2026March 24, 2026 Stuart Mitchner

Rolling the Dice — Stéphane Mallarmé and Flannery O’Connor

March 18, 2026March 18, 2026 Stuart Mitchner

March 18 and the Coming and Going Of Writers, Actors, and Tornados

March 11, 2026March 11, 2026 Stuart Mitchner

Celebrating the 95th Bryn Mawr-Wellesley Book Sale

March 4, 2026March 3, 2026 Stuart Mitchner

Art in Life On Vivaldi’s Birthday

February 25, 2026February 24, 2026 Stuart Mitchner

Drawing a Line Halfway Through Thomas Pynchon’s “Mason & Dixon”

February 18, 2026February 17, 2026 Stuart Mitchner

At the Bijou Hotel — Edison, Twain, and Lawyers in Love

February 11, 2026February 10, 2026 Stuart Mitchner 

Music, Movies, and City Lights on Edison’s Birthday

February 4, 2026February 3, 2026 Stuart Mitchner

Beginnings and Endings: From Einstein to Washington

January 28, 2026January 27, 2026 Stuart Mitchner

The Day Yeats Died — The Road from “Lapis Lazuli” Leads to Indiana

January 21, 2026January 20, 2026 Stuart Mitchner

Poetry and Sudden Death: A John Berryman January

January 14, 2026January 13, 2026 Stuart Mitchner

“Make Room for Wonder”: Patti Smith, Elvis, the Queen of Denmark, and Kate Bush

January 7, 2026January 6, 2026 Stuart Mitchner

The New Year Begins with “Stranger Things,” Indiana, and Patti Smith

December 31, 2025December 31, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

“It Happened One Night” — New Year’s Eve With Ethan Hawke, “Stranger Things,” and Bob Dylan

December 24, 2025December 23, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

Christmas Eve With Dickens, Berlioz, and Dostoevsky

December 17, 2025December 16, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

When Austen Met Beethoven: A Fractured Fantasy

December 10, 2025December 9, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

Pairing Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson On Emily’s Birthday

December 3, 2025December 2, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

Secret Sharers In the “Somewhere Else of Literature”

November 26, 2025November 25, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

The Gift of a Middle Name — Thanksgiving with William Blake and Patti Smith

November 19, 2025November 19, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

Schubert Drop By Drop On the Day He Died

November 12, 2025November 12, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

Poets and Players Highlight a Dostoevskian Week

November 5, 2025November 5, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

The Other Side of “Expecting” — Fifty Years in Princeton

October 29, 2025October 29, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

A Double Play: From Pynchon to Dylan to Southern