Favorite Books
The Iliad and the Odyssey, The Tain, the Bible, Hamlet, Lear, Othello, Huck Finn, The Great Gatsby, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, the Rabbit tetralogy, and many more.
What I'm Reading
Recently: Stoner, I'd Know You Anywhere, An Altar in the World, The Lazarus Project, Be Near Me, Before the Frost, The Passage, Columbine, Bad Luck and Trouble, The Bodies Left Behind, Exile
Favorite Authors
Homer, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Blake, the English Romantic poets, the Metaphysical poets, Dickens, Dickenson, Hopkins, Eliot, Yeats, Joyce, O'Casey, Auden, Heaney, Larkin, Beckett, Larkin, O'Connor,Updike and many more.
About Michael
Male senior citizen, first generation Irish, retired educator, live in the Chicago area, originally from California. My siblings are still in CA so I've been out there on a fairly regular basis over the years. I started my high school's first literary...
Michael’s Favorite Books
The Iliad and the Odyssey, The Tain, the Bible, Hamlet, Lear, Othello, Huck Finn, The Great Gatsby, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, the...