Monday, July 11, 2016

From Lucy Gayheart


Willa Cather, Lucy Gayheart (1935).

Lucy Gayheart! I’m with you in Haverford.

More seriously: I think there are few writers who understand the claustrophobia of little towns as well as Willa Cather does. See for instance the chance meeting of Godfrey St. Peter and Horace Langtry in The Professor’s House .

Related reading
All OCA Cather posts (Pinboard)

[With apologies to Allen Ginsberg’s Howl .]

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