Look Homeward, Angel

Even angels must leave their nests in heaven one day… …a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces. Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb we did not know our mother’s face; from the prison of her flesh have we come into the unspeakable an......more

While visiting Asheville, NC, in May, we boarded a trolley at the Visitor's Center for a guided tour of the city. 'Uncle Ted' was our driver, a retired high school history teacher with a great sense of humor but an occasionally hard-to-decipher accent. He took umbrage if we didn't always laugh at hi......more

Look Homeward, Angel, A Story of Buried Life: Or, Why I Can't Go Home Again Look Homeward, Angel, First Edition, Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, NY, 1929 The manuscript Thomas Wolfe submitted to master editor Maxwell Perkins was not titled Look Homeward, Angel, A Story of Buried Life. Rather, Wolfe h......more

Mind-blowing, truly mind-blowing. This book seems to have nearly been forgotten now, but it had an absolutely earth-shattering impact on writers of the early 20th century following its publication in 1929. How it could possibly have lost the 1930 Pulitzer to the awful, condescending Laughing Boy: A......more