April 30, 2013 JMRL Blog

“Home, whether it be structure or familiar ground, is, finally, the identity that does not fade.”

March 27, 2013 JMRL Blog

“It’s a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.” Amy Tan

March 7, 2013 JMRL Blog

The Elegance of the Hedge-blog

February 5, 2013 JMRL Blog

“This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire…”

December 21, 2012 JMRL Blog

Brown Baggers 2013 Selections

December 5, 2012 JMRL Blog

The Cervantes Prize or Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana Miguel de Cervantes

November 26, 2012 JMRL Blog

“Life isn’t like a book. There’s never a final page.” — We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen

November 6, 2012 JMRL Blog

“She’s the most important person in the world and her family living in poverty. If our mother is so important to science, why can’t we get health insurance?” Deborah “Dale” Lacks, Henrietta Lacks’ daughter

September 24, 2012 JMRL Blog

“I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it.” – Henry Miller

August 24, 2012 JMRL Blog

‘I always liked to think he made me and all of us better than we were. He was just about the smartest man I ever met.’—Liz Smith about Gore Vidal

August 17, 2012 JMRL Blog

Mystery or History

July 24, 2012 JMRL Blog

“What did these small things mean? Why does touch matter? And what survives?” — Edmund de Waal

June 22, 2012 JMRL Blog

“I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.” Reynolds Price