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Returning to Therapy
Book therapy, that is. Eight years ago I began my year of reading a book a day. I was looking for escape, wisdom, comfort, and clarity after losing my oldest sister to cancer. Reading in my purple...
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Praise for The Lowells of Massachusetts
With less than two months until publication, The Lowells of Massachusetts: An American Family is garnering stellar reviews. Booklist calls The Lowells of Massachusetts “a fascinating collective...
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The Joys of Picking My Favorite Books
I am thrilled and honored to be Westport Library Guest Curator for November. In the list of 100 books I chose as curator, I share those books that changed my life. Great good comes from reading...
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Honor in the Civil War
In March of this year, John Kelly describes the Civil War as arising out of a failure “to compromise”; he also cautions against applying contemporary standards of ethics to historical events — “very...
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Diagnosing the Lowells
In her latest book, Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison uses Robert Lowell’s medical records to explore the connection between his bipolar disease and his fecundity as a...
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The Lowells and the Community of America
In the decades leading up to the Civil War, the Lowells of Massachusetts faced the same overriding question that Americans face today: what kind of nation world we want all Americans — friends, family,...
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Amy Lowell, Making the World Safe for Poetry
Amy Lowell In December 1917, Amy Lowell’s local newspaper, The Brookline Chronicle, ran a notice that caught her eye. U.S. Army training camps were in need of books for their libraries. Amy called up...
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Amy Lowell and the Art of the Audience
On a cold, wet day in March of 1915, Amy Lowell stepped up on the dais in the large meeting room of the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park in New York City. She had been asked to address the Poetry...
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Forty-Seven Years of Amy Lowell Fandom
Forty-Six Years of Amy Lowell Fandom When I was in second grade I edited my first book of poetry. All the poems I chose had fall as the theme and I decorated the cover of the book with autumn leaves,...
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The Rebels of Braintree
So what am I working on now? I am in the midst of writing The Rebels of Braintree – a story of how a group of young idealists from the village of Braintree – John Hancock, Dolly Quincy, John Adams,...
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