Don J. McDermott

DON MCDERMOTT is a professor of English at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan.

Articles

A Memorable Tribute | Phyllis Barber, How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir

How I Got Cultured, Phyllis Barber’s memoir of her Mormon youth and adolescence in 1950s Nevada, has won accolades too numerous to mention. It has been warmly received in publications as mainstream and established as Publishers…

Lost on Both Sides

I suppose we all share the same space at one time or another. One can search out these spaces, as I have. Outside Paris I spent an afternoon mulling about in Malmaison, Napoleon and Josephine’s…

In the Right Hands

“Let’s see what sort of surprises await us in Jennifer’s story,” Jean-Paul said wearily and shuffled the story pages on his desk, as though by doing so he would impose order on narrative chaos. What…