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

October 22, 2025October 22, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

Diane Keaton Unleashed As Thomas Pynchon Returns

October 15, 2025October 14, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

Everything Is Ubiquitous in Thomas Pynchon’s New Book

October 8, 2025October 7, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

“Reading For Pleasure” and the Upcoming Library Book Sale

October 1, 2025October 1, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

Fitzgerald and Wolfe Have Words a Week Before the Library Book Sale

September 24, 2025September 23, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

On F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Birthday: Robert Redford Moves In Close

September 17, 2025September 16, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

“Walk Warily” — D.H. Lawrence and the Shipboard Cat

September 10, 2025September 10, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

Driving Through the Year with Brahms and Irwin Gage

September 3, 2025September 2, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

Celebrating the “Time of Our Lives”

August 27, 2025August 27, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

A Birthday Celebration for the August 27 Club

August 20, 2025August 20, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

Out of the Lawrentian Woods — Recalling the Week of the Fox

August 13, 2025August 13, 2025 Stuart Mitchner

A Centenary Celebration of “The Great Gatsby” and “The Gold Rush”