
Vita
James Elkins grew up in Ithaca, New York, separated from Cornell University by a quarter-mile of woods once owned by the naturalist Laurence Palmer. He stayed on in Ithaca long enough to get the BA degree (in English and Art History), with summer hitchhiking trips to Alaska, Mexico, Guatemala, the Caribbean, and Columbia. For the […]
The novel
FAQs Do I need to read all the books to understand this one? You can read each book by itself. They are entirely independent of each other. Each is different, with its own style, mood, and stories. Not to be rude, but then why read more than one? Five Strange Languages is […]