Hemingway Documentary
I chose to watch all three episodes, equaling about six hours, of Ken Burns latest documentary, Hemingway. First impression: I watched...
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Barbara G. Tucker
Mar 14, 20214 min read
House of Mirth: No Mirth, All Brilliant
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, But the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. Ecclesiastes 7:4 House of Mirth is a...
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Barbara G. Tucker
Jan 9, 20211 min read
Bridgerton: Trashy Take on Jane Austen
True confessions: I binge watched this show, that is, its first "season." (Seasons doesn't mean what it used to.) It was three hours of...
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Barbara G. Tucker
Jan 4, 20211 min read
The Sacred Veil
https://www.charlesanthonysilvestri.com/the-sacred-veil The music of this musical composition is something I am still exploring, but the...
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Barbara G. Tucker
Dec 29, 20203 min read
DUNE: Yes, DUNE. A must read.
Sometimes we pick up a book (or download it to our devices) for uncertain reasons. Sometimes for me, because a movie version is coming...
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Barbara G. Tucker
Dec 15, 20201 min read
Reflections on Virginia Woolf
"Now, in the passages I have quoted from JANE EYRE, it is clear that anger was tampering with the integrity of Charlotte Brontë the...
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Barbara G. Tucker
Dec 7, 20203 min read
Why to Say NO to Writers' Groups
The Algonquin Roundtable, the zenith of writers' groups. I have written on this blog, and elsewhere, about the value of writers’ groups...
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Barbara G. Tucker
Nov 8, 20203 min read
Prodigal Son: Literature, Theology, Therapy
Everyone (almost) in Western culture is familiar with the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15. Even if they have no interest...
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Barbara G. Tucker
Oct 30, 20205 min read
An Email to a Friend About Writers' Group
Back in April I wrote this to a writer I am mentoring. It's an artifact from the intense days of the pandemic shutdown. What a wonderful...
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Barbara G. Tucker
Oct 29, 20201 min read
Empathy and Literature
Sometimes in blogging you just want to send your readers to other good sources. Below I have linked an article about whether empathy can...
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Barbara G. Tucker
Aug 29, 20203 min read
Musings on Creativity
All of us are skilled in something. All of us are talented in something. There is a difference. Skilled is achieved through thousands of...
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Barbara G. Tucker
Jul 26, 20205 min read
What does Dickens teach the fiction writer in 2020?
What does a best-seller from the mid-1800s have to say to us today? Pretty much everything. 1. Detail. Fiction writers closely observe...
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Barbara G. Tucker
Jun 2, 20204 min read
Lessons from Jane, Part II
When one reads Austen—and I should say Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes—one gets a straightforward narrative. The first chapter of David...
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Barbara G. Tucker
May 31, 20206 min read
What Jane Austen Can Teach Writers Today
Last night I finished the last of the six novels Jane Austen wrote fully; I don’t count Sanditon, because someone else finished it, or...
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Barbara G. Tucker
Apr 26, 20203 min read
An Honest Book Review
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz We have a cart on the second floor of our building where professors put out books they...
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Barbara G. Tucker
Apr 10, 20209 min read
IMMUNITY
I offer this somewhat dystopian short story. It is copyrighted by Barbara Graham Tucker, 2020.
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Barbara G. Tucker
Apr 6, 20205 min read
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Barbara G. Tucker
Apr 3, 20203 min read
Writing in the Time of Coronavirus
I can only finish with the promise that Someone is bigger than COVID-19...
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Barbara G. Tucker
Apr 1, 20202 min read
"Living Water"
A sneak peak into my newest novel.
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Barbara G. Tucker
Mar 26, 20203 min read
Secular writing, “Christian writing,” and in between
Can a Christian write R-rated material?
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