Willa Cather documentary

As a soldier I’ve always found Hemingway as a bullshitter so his criticism of this woman is just pathetic misogyny . She obviously has had a life well lived

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Found her at the library to read all her stuff decades ago. Unusually enjoyable even set in a place that normally would not draw my interest.....that well written. Cutting her hair off, dressing in male clothes, later she came out as gay living in N.Y.C.

Willa Cather lived just 35 miles from where my grandfather grew up. So her stories are a magic carpet ride to my grandpa's childhood. ♥️

I tried to read my Antonia after buying it in a second-hand store. It got boring. Am I alone in that? Descriptive but repetitive.

I grew up about 20 minutes from where she was born and Willow Shade, the house she moved to in the same area as a baby. Willow Shade is a beautiful brick home that is listed in the National resister of historic places. Her birthplace is dilapitated but was recently purchased by someone I know last year and along with the Cather relatives and the Willa Cather center, there are plans to restore it. What isn't told in this story is that she also had breast cancer. Edit, who she was with for 39 years, was named her literary executor in Willa Cather's will. Edit Lewis died in 1972 and is buried beside her in NH. I feel honored to have lived over 40 years in the same area. I'm still only 45 min away now. Beautiful area here in the Shenandoah Valley. Come see it!

I love David McCullough and his thoroughly knowledgeable historical perspective.

Willa Cather is one of my favorite North American authors. I love her short stories, as well as her novels. Truly brilliant.

How wonderful to find this author in 2024 with all that is going on today she would be amazed iam 76 and happy to find out life and people do not change we are born who we are and who we will be*

Darkness/Death never wins... Light/God does!

Yes

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She just sounds like a pecular person. Her mother disciplined her with a rawhide whip? Who the frick does that. No wonder she was an odd duck.

She was born in Winchester , Va.

Loved for her to sit at my dining table. Wonderful excectric Willa

I don't know why everything now a days is reduced to its sexuality ... All this is dehumanizing

Why does Marcia Gay Harden sound like a spider from the east coast when she is portraying Willa Cather? Can't Cather's words sustain the listener's attention without all that slyness and tension?

Beautifully made documentary.

I actually live in Gore, Va where she was born… I haven’t heard her full story until this documentary.. and I love this! ❤

Her mother was a 'spirited woman'? She whipped her children?! Yeah, my mother was 'spirited' too...still dealing with CPTSD. Cather's isolation was an outgrowth of her severe childhood abuse.

After watching this amazing documentary, I have no intention of reading any of Cather's depressing dismal stories even though they are rich in language. One begins to speculate about Cather's state of mind as being depressed, the opposing male and female issues within her creating a basic need to cry out and get out of her skin, the continuing theme of Willa going into urban settings and the need to escape into wild natural settings. The overview of her books here mirrors her own state of mind about the world as being tragic without a positive note of joy and hope- only death to escape.

How incredibly fortunate Willa was to have had such indulgent parents (I was rather surprised that her “strict, Southern Belle” mother had allowed her to cut off her hair and go around the town wearing men’s clothes)….There is something in her background that doesn’t quite add up…..How sad that all of her journals & letters were burned….

I was named after her💕

Joan Acoacella is at her best when retelling historical events, as she has often done when 'critiquing' dance, She is super good at retelling the events of Mark Morris' foray's into the aforementioned performance art. Joan's desperation to be interesting is illustrated in broad strokes when she tries to describe Willa Cather's inner life.

My Antonia was the first Willa Cather book that I read in 6th grade. I'm from Nebraska and now live in Virginia. I completely understand how she became passionate about those open spaces. I long for them even now as I get older. I became passionate about the ocean. I will stay here in Virginia because I love it, but I will long for Nebraska till the day I die. I love her books. They take me back to those open expanses.

What a wonderful documentary about the author, Willa Cather. I have all her novels.

I'd like to be alive in fifty years when people write about the Covid Epidemic. Of course l won't be. Because it's so recent people seem to want to forget about it.

I read five of her books in a row. This was so interesting. The prairie is beautiful. I saw it while on a train to LA.

Thank you for the beautiful documentary, a piece of art in itself. I enjoyed every moment of it

Excellent documentary! Thank you

Vivian Gornick is a dope. Of course, Cather was a lesbian who had lovers. To say otherwise is stupid.

As Always PBS, has the Best programming & this Documentery was very well done🤗👍👏, Now I need to vsit my local Library & ck out what books they may have on Willa Cather, thank you👏😊

Wonderful

Finally after 40+ years of sitting on my shelf, I am opening a Library of America volume Willa Cather Later Novels. Watching this beautiful documentary is very emotional 😢 truly a great American, an amazing mind, a truly free woman

This is wonderful. Thank you. I'm English and had never heard of this lady until now.

Brilliant. Thank you so much.

There's an air of disaster in the way the story is told, in the voices of the commentators and in the music. It's interesting how these things affect our reception of what is being told.

Ho letto la morte viene per l'arcivescovo ma non mi è piaciuto: troppe descrizioni di luoghi, cose e paesaggi

I listened to this with my heart...like Willa writes. I felt connection to her and wept, feeling her deep love of her women friends.... I'm a man and we aren't allowed sensitivity like that because it's considered effeminate.... I'm not unmanly, but I have melted a heart of stone.

Really a fine example of public television and public radio. I think this is a great documentary .

The fire. Reminds me of Lector's, in Silence of the Lambs, chat with Clarissa. I so shuddered then and right now again.

Delighted to hear Marcia Gay Harden's reading! Never delighted when they say "he (a bishop, a king etc.) build..." when we sometimes know, sometimes not know how horrible the conditions for the workers were who BUILD. The people living there surely did not need a bishop and a cathedral!

My heartfelt thanks to Dr. Angela Elliott, of Centenary College, for sharing this documentary years ago. I'm watching again, many years later without her, as she left us in 2015. Thanks Angela, for the immense wealth you gave me in life and now, in death.

All I can say is Wow.. She is one of my favorite authors.

Queer people existing, dressing after another gender`s fashion, living with a same sex person, dedicating all their work to them.
Historians: It is uncertain whether they were gay.

The musical soundtrack is just a little heavy-handed, especially when Cather's prose are recited. The writing should speak for itself without the heavy hand imposed on it by the music.

My type of bia

volume too low must strain to hear .. on iPhone max speaker volume .. yet YT ads play too loud ❓❓❓

How depressing .

Unfortunately, loneliness is all her making..