• Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Blind Assassin’: Novels-Within-Novels-Within-Novels

    Written by the renowned Canadian author, Margaret Atwood, at the turn of the millennium, The Blind Assassin won both the Booker and Hammett Prize, despite a lengthy list of harsh criticisms. Atwood is perhaps best known for her 1986 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. A dystopic nightmare about the loss of a woman’s right to her own body and selfhood, The…

  • Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour”

    Today, we’re talking about one of Kate Chopin’s shortest of stories and the inspiration for the title of this blog. A masterpiece in precision and irony, Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is one of her most popular and widely read works. So, if you’re looking for a quick read—just over a thousand words, I counted—then this is the…