September 2015 – Princeton Writes

Finding a Room of One’s Own

Stephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:16:18-05:00

Finding a Room of One’s Own At almost every reading I’ve ever been to, the first question asked of the author is, “What is your writing process?” Often, the author will describe a disciplined, solitary, almost Spartan life that begins at 4:30 a.m. each day at a small desk, rain or shine, in sickness and in health. This is the point in the Q & A when I sink into despair. Then I decide that half of these writers are embellishing; that the blissful early morning desk is fiction itself. Perhaps the perpetuation of this ideal comes from a desire to [...]

Finding a Room of One’s OwnStephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:16:18-05:00

milquetoast (MĬLK-tōst)

Stephanie Whetstone2015-09-14T12:00:42-04:00

Definition (Noun) A timid, submissive, or ineffectual person, a milksop. In Context "Soft-spoken, fastidious, a bird-watcher in his off-hours, Cramp struck some as a bit of a milquetoast." Pope Brock, Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam, 2008.

milquetoast (MĬLK-tōst)Stephanie Whetstone2015-09-14T12:00:42-04:00

horologe (HÔR-ə-lōj)

Stephanie Whetstone2015-09-07T12:00:58-04:00

Definition (Noun) An instrument for telling the hour; a timepiece; a dial, hour-glass, or clock. In Context "Carlyle often mused on the strange fact that the clock strikes to mark the change from hour to hour but no hammer in the horologe of time peals through the universe to announce the change from era to era." Max Freedman, "Much Sensible Advice Available for New Year If One Will Take It," Los Angeles Times, January 2, 1964.

horologe (HÔR-ə-lōj)Stephanie Whetstone2015-09-07T12:00:58-04:00

Meet Mr. Mulliner (1927) by P. G. Wodehouse

Stephanie Whetstone2015-09-01T12:00:20-04:00

Critical Assessment "Mr. Wodehouse has never descended further into the dangerous regions of broad farce than in his latest book, "Meet Mr. Mulliner." He has never taken larger liberties with the entire cordon of esthetic probabilities. If his hand had been a shade more heavy, or his spirits a trifle less effervescent, the descent might easily have been a disaster. As it is, Mr. Wodehouse has done a job which few, if any, of his contemporaries could have managed. He has punned and bubbled and burlesqued his way through nine frothy, inimitable stories. Not one of them is strained beyond the [...]

Meet Mr. Mulliner (1927) by P. G. WodehouseStephanie Whetstone2015-09-01T12:00:20-04:00

Finding a Room of One’s Own

milquetoast (MĬLK-tōst)

horologe (HÔR-ə-lōj)

Meet Mr. Mulliner (1927) by P. G. Wodehouse

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