Tag: Eric D. Lehman

• Intrepid Travelers

  As with any genre, travel writing can be deliberately formulaic or ambitiously literary, depending on the writer’s intent and/or ability. From Petrarch to Percy Shelley to Tom Bissell, authors have used travel as backdrops for larger themes. Petrarch’s Ascent of Mount Ventoux (1336) makes mountain climbing an allegory for spiritual growth. Historians disagree as to…

  Bill Ectric

  February 2, 2012

  A History of Connecticut Wine, Afoot in Connecticut, Ascent of Mount Ventoux, Bridgeport, Bridgeport CT, Eric D. Lehman, geography, Hamden, history, Kelly Lynn Thomas, metafiction, Michael Abraham, Paganism, Percy Shelley, Petrarch, Stuart McGehee, The Goddess Espana, The Spine of the Virginias, Tom Bissell, travel, travel writing, witch

• Afoot in Connecticut

  I’ve been enjoying these video clips from Eric Lehman’s blog, The Myth of Home.  I’ll be back soon with another Wadsworth Camp update.

  Bill Ectric

  February 4, 2010

  Connecticut, Eric D. Lehman, travel, travel writing

• Peering Behind Childhood’s Curtain: Eric Lehman Reviews Kerouac’s “Dr. Sax”

  University of Bridgeport English Professor Eric D. Lehman reviews Jack Kerouac’s Dr. Sax on Empty Mirror Books: “Dr. Sax is one of Jack Kerouac’s most troubling books for readers, peering behind the curtain of his childhood rather than exploring those later years of Beats and bodhisattvas. Nevertheless, it remains a startling achievement, unique not only among Kerouac’s works, but among…

  Bill Ectric

  March 29, 2009

  beat generation, Book Reviews, childhood, Dr. Sax, Empty Mirror Books, Eric D. Lehman, imagination, Jack Kerouac, Lowell, MA, writing