The Craft of Middlemarch: Possibilities for Third Person Omniscient How do I start this? So, apparently, Mary Ann Evans lived for over two decades with a married man? Did y’all know this? She lived in the home of a married man as his “conjugal partner” while his wife also lived there and then stayed with him through his wife moving in with another man. This from Wikipedia. I was just sitting here, about to begin my book review, and I thought, “gee, I should probably know a thing about...

Middlemarch: On Eliot and Reading qua Education--Whether Non-AI writing is "Elitist" These two concepts are so entangled in my mind right now: Middlemarch and literacy. I’ve been reading Middlemarch for nearly four months and am finally about to finish, during a time when my own literacy has faltered, a time when I can distinguish which of my Creative Writing students are readers, a time when culture claims that our education system is failing us, a time when a friend has told me that a...

2 June 2026 Preamble, I guess: Before I share this poem, it may be helpful to know a few things. First, although this reads as an elegy, it is not. My father lives in upstate New York. He is a very active person, a civil engineer, but of late he has been unable to do some of the activities he once loved, as he is battling the most aggressive of cancerous brain tumors: glioblastoma. Luckily, he was a member of a very successful (for him) immunotherapy trial which you can read about in this...