Kate J Hollingsworth
art + travel + photography
Category: literature
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A Lazy Day Off
Today was a lazy day for me. I spent some time meandering around and exploring my neighborhood, plus hanging out at a nearby outdoor cafe. I couldn’t really read the Czech menu there, so I ordered randomly off the coffee section and got this espresso + ice cream + whipped cream drink. It was pretty […]
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Our Town
Our Town by Thornton Wilder might be my favorite play ever. I read it for the first time in 10th grade English class, as a requirement. And maybe you’ve read it, too. Or seen Paul Newman in the PBS dvd. (I love Paul!) Our Town follows the lives (and deaths) of characters in the small […]
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Margaret Atwood at Emory
Margaret Atwood, author of great books like The Handmaid’s Tale and (personal fave) The Penelopiad, came to speak at Emory as part of our Ellmann Lectures series. She was a great speaker with a sharp wit and good insights. She cracked a lot of jokes, shared stories of her childhood growing up in Canada, […]
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German Poetry, Anyone?
I like poetry. I’ve heard that German poetry is really good. That there’s something about a cacophonous language with a bit of word order freedom that makes for unique verse. That’s what people tell me anyway. Knowing about zero German, I read the words in translation. I love that translations of so many things are […]
