Chekhov's Mistress
The Big Read, Zora Neale Hurston, and me
You’ve may have heard about the Big Read Initiative of the NEA (see the Big Read blog), which creates community events around the US surrounding the reading of a single book. Seems like a worthy cause, given the initiative’s impetus, the 2004 Reading at Risk survey, which documented the decline of reading in American culture.
One of the authors featured in the Big Read program is Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mule Bone, Dust Tracks on Road, and Seraph on the Sewanee, among other great works.
Where do I figure in this tale of hope for literature? I built the just launched “official” Zora Neale Hurston Website!
My desire to do that sort of thing, literary oriented Websites, is why I named my company “Sonnet Media” so I’m delighted to have been involved in this project.
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bravo for the Zora Neale Hurston blog! I finished “Their Eyes Were Watching God” this evening, coincidentally. I kept wondering how it is that I was obliged to read “A Farewell to Arms” in High School lit, and never once heard mention of the brilliance Hurston.
– Aralena (02/04 at 04:18 PM)
It’s true that if it weren’t for the film many people still wouldn’t have heard of her.
– Bud Parr (02/05 at 10:27 AM)
The Hurston site is phenomenal! I sincerely hope that you’ll get the opportunity to make more sites like this one. They’re very helpful to teachers, as well as general readers and students.
One thing: clicking the heading sends you to “clients.sonnetmedia.com,” which appears to be a holding page. I know I typically click on banners instead of “Home” buttons, so this might confuse some readers.
– Ted (02/05 at 01:31 PM)
Thanks for your nice comment, Ted, and thanks too for mentioning that header thing - always a million little links when we move those sites online and some slip through.
You may be interested to know that I’ll soon be launching a site on Don Quixote that will have a lot of interesting and useful resources not found (particularly in one place) on other sites out there and the site will be geared toward general readers, not just academics.
– Bud Parr (02/05 at 02:34 PM)
Boy, I’d love a Don Quixote site. I’ve browsed the web in search of material before, and a centralized location will be convenient. A narrative arch summary (e.g. chapters 7-10 are Quixote and Sancho, chapters 11-15 are the slave’s narrative, etc) would be the highlight of the site.
Just a suggestion 
– Ted (02/05 at 04:58 PM)
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: February 01, 2007
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