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Alan Bray
Aug 31, 20233 min read
Aaron Burr Leaves The Building
This week, I’d like to begin with an admission of error—no, I’m not joking. As Baby’s father says to Johnny in Dirty Dancing, “When I’m...
Alan Bray
Aug 24, 20234 min read
Dream A Little Dream Of Me
In Eudora Welty’s First Love, a twelve-year-old boy, Joel Mayes, encounters Aaron Burr and Harman Blennerhassett, two figures, as we saw...
Alan Bray
Aug 17, 20234 min read
First Love
This week, a new story, First Love, written by last week’s author, Eudora Welty, and first published in 1942. First Love is classic...
Alan Bray
Aug 10, 20235 min read
Saying It
What can be said about No Place For You, My Love? It is beautifully written, breathtaking. But the story remains enigmatic. Two strangers...
Alan Bray
Aug 3, 20235 min read
We're Not In Kansas Anymore
Last time in our discussion of Eudora Welty’s No Time For You, My Love, I threatened to get into the manner in which Ms. Welty presents...
Alan Bray
Jul 27, 20234 min read
No Place For You, My Love
This week, a new story, No Place For You My Love, by Eudora Welty, originally published in the September 12th, 1952 issue of the New...