Nathaniel Hawthorne dies. Does anyone read Hawthorne out of the classroom? I have good memories of a Hawthorne seminar I took in grad school. Some of his short stories are particularly interesting.
In one, Wakeful, a man walks out on his wife and disappears - but is living only blocks away. Early in my career I wrote "The Other Wakefield," from the wife's point of view, who knows he's there all along.
Hawthorne loved moral dilemmas, which is why he's still interesting today.
