Rebecca Tirrell Talbot

Rebecca Tirrell Talbot lives in Chicago, where she teaches writing courses and works in the Writing Center at North Park University. <br /><br />

Adapting to Adaptations

Jun 8, 2012 5 min read Film & Television Literature Film Theatre

In 1909, the very first American full-length motion picture lit the screen. The film was part of that beloved and contested genre, the literary adaptation. It was the first of many film versions

Truth, Like Poetry

Apr 27, 2012 4 min read Literature Peter Trachtenberg Raining in Baltimore

Here I am, writer at the desk, remembering. My memory summons up a homesick afternoon that I must write about, and now the picture appears. There I am, twenty-three, stretched out on the

Getting Personal

Feb 24, 2012 2 min read Humanity Literature persona personal essay

I cartwheel backwards through years, to the porch step where I am sitting beside a friend on a chilly October evening seven years ago. I try to breathe this cold past self alive,

Not Home for the Holidays

Jan 20, 2012 4 min read Humanity pizza skype travel

I wanted to travel to Pennsylvania to be with my family this Christmas. My family always swaddles the holiday thick with traditions, and I missed those. On Christmas Eve, my mom crushes candy

Books to Read In a Cabin in the Woods

Dec 9, 2011 3 min read Literature Richard Russo Truman Capote vacations

This piece was originally published in June 2009. Growing up, my family and I vacationed in an Upstate New York cabin. A lake spread out, cold and tranquil, just across a gravel road.