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Category Archives: LITERATURE
LITERATURE: The Borderline of Author/Story
Excellent points being made by Dan Green over at The Reading Experience on separation of a writer from his work. In his post, A Nicer Chap, Dan comments on Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s decision not to read anymore of this author’s books … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Perfect Example & Tropic of Cancer
We naturally recall other readings when we come across something similar, and one would think that these two books are just about opposites but then, there’s much that’s relative to both. In Perfect Example, John Porcellino portrays his own adolescence … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Tropic of Cancer – Psychological Realism
There are reasons I’m forcing myself to read this, just as I had with Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Admittedly, I go a few pages at a time with days in between pages. It’s tough … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Tropic of Cancer – Close Reading
No, I didn’t put this down yet. Slugging my way through and came across something nice: Even before the music begins there is that bored look on people’s faces. A polite form of self-imposed torture, the concert. For a moment, … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Hypertext Reading
I’m embarrassed to point it out because it includes my own work in its focus, but Steve Ersinghaus has a wonderful series on Hypertext reading that’s so good it’s teaching me things about my own work as well as serving … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Tropic of Cancer – Out of its time
I’m wondering if some so-named literary classics must be read for that which gave them their standing. In other words, what made them exploratory and outstanding in their time, even though it no longer appeals for that reason. As, by … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Miller vs. Calvino
I’d started Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler, cheating with a tempting tidbit to force myself through Miller’s Tropic of Cancer which is truly a trial of the sophisticated mind. A more allowable (by the rules) side trip … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: BASS 2007 – Do Something (& Finale)
The final selection, Do Something by Kate Walbert finishes up one of the best BASS anthologies I’ve read. Not a head-scratcher among them and so I get the feeling that Stephen King and I may share some similar taste in … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: BASS 2007 – Sans Farine
Jim Shepard gives us a narrator who serves as executioner during the French Revolution–no wonder Stephen King included this one in the anthology! I’m sure Mr. King was just twitching with delight at Shepard’s fine delivery, realistically presented in the … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: BASS 2007 – Horseman
This one by Richard Russo didn’t quite draw me in. A graduate student teaching at a college and finding one of her students plagiarizing a paper is interwoven with her dealings with two difference professors–one a brilliant man she admires … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: BASS 2007 – St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (2)
Absolutely loved this one by Karen Russell, and for two reasons: it was a bit off the wall–a convent school run by nuns for, well, girls who have been raised by wolves, and secondly, because it was well done. Normally … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: BASS 2007 – St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
I’ve not finished this story yet, but it is truly delightful and with no further explanation but the title (above) let me share this, a scenario in which Claudette, the narrator is paired with Mirabella, a younger girl to feed … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: BASS 2007 – The Bris
This would likely qualify as horror story for many male readers, this story by Eileen Pollack–who seems to understand well the fear getting a circumcision as an adult would inspire. We certainly have the wanting and how far someone would … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: BASS 2007 – Dimension
Alice Munro has been one of my favorite short story writers yet this story–while very compelling a topic–was not as brilliantly executed as what I’ve read of hers before. The subject is of course very touchy; an older man seduces … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: BASS 2007 – The Boy in Zaquitos
First published in Fantasy and Science Fiction, this story by Bruce McAllister would qualify as mystery, adventure as easily as sci fi. Oddly enough, though it is written in first person pov, there is a subtitle of The Retired Operative … Continue reading Continue reading
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology