Dr. Butler Cain
Maus II, A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman I hadn’t anticipated reading Spiegelman’s other installment of Maus, but I was so impressed with the first one that I drove up to Amarillo today to purchase the second one. This one begins when Spiegelman’s father, Vladek, is brought to Auschwitz. The subtitle […]
Read MoreMaus I, A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman You can find Maus on various lists of must-read journalism. Spiegelman isn’t a journalist — he’s an artist — but he portrays his father’s story of surviving the Nazi holocaust in the style of journalism narrative. And, he also does it in the form of […]
Read MoreNight by Elie Wiesel I was poking around in my departmental office recently and came across a boxful of this book. It had been the selection for the Readership WT program three years ago. I hadn’t read this since high school, so I grabbed a copy (I’m faculty — I can do that) and took […]
Read MoreHow to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster I picked up this book while I was still living in Seoul. I barely started reading it in the spring before I moved back to the U.S. — and then life got in the way for a while. I’ve significantly ramped up my consumption of […]
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