Quantcast
Channel: siskiyoudaily.com - Siskiyou Daily News, Yreka, CA
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 104

Bookmarks: Author takes a trip through Vermeer’s works

$
0
0
As a boy, Michael White was consigned to the "slow group" in school. He seemed to have trouble concentrating.In fact, White — who went on earn a Ph.D. — turned out to be a poet. He had a habit of locking onto objects and focusing on them obsessively, often to the neglect of whatever his teachers wanted him to be doing.That knack, or flaw, served him well in "Travels in Vermeer," a memoir of his obsession with the 17th-century Dutch painter.Back in the spring of 2004, White — a [...]

Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 104

Trending Articles