Appreciation …

… Willa Cather’s Nobility. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Few things would Willa Cather, were she alive today, loathe more than being taught in the contemporary university in a course on gay women writers, where today she no doubt often is. Taylor is excellent on Willa Cather’s lesbianism. He recognizes it without dwelling on it, never using it as a lever to pry open the putatively secret meanings in her fiction