BU Creative Writing wishes you a happy Friday! And here are some literary links to start off your weekend.
Dan Chiasson reviews Claudia Rankine’s latest.
Whoa. A Jane Austen video game, in which one plays to win the sympathy of Elizabeth Bennett.
What Mark Twain’s mother taught him about compassion.
Novelist Don DeLillo reviews a Taylor Swift track.
The Boston Book Festival is this weekend!
Aaron Copland’s 8 Poems of Emily Dickinson.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s advice to his daughter, Scottie (and one Slate writer’s quite strong opinion on it).
The breathtaking third movement of Charles Ives’ Concord Sonata, “The Alcotts.” (After Louisa May Alcott and her father.)
Hope your weekend is full of wild and whirling words.
