This post is about an overlooked classic of American literature, which I stumbled upon by accident through an old essay by Tom Cox. It's the debut novel by Evans Connell, Mrs. Bridge, which was published in 1959. It's unlike anything I've ever read. The sheer simplicity of Connell's prose is paralleled by the simplicity of … Continue reading Mrs. Bridge — On the Quiet Desperation of Ordinary Life
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 