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Blood Diamond
“The Moonstone” is a novel that after it is read, still seems impossible to write. First, there is the simple anomaly that “The Moonstone,” a detective fiction, not only resists the temptation to be read once and shelved after the … Continue reading
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Tagged detective, diamond, literature, sherlock holmes, the moonstone, wilkie collins
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Leading Ladies
Many readers find it easy to ignore early Romantic era novels under the pretenses that they, aside from boring, do little more than dress up the English gentility, take it to fancy balls, and marry it off. Salman Rushdie bemoaned … Continue reading
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Tagged aristocracy, belinda, english, feminism, maria edgeworth, romanticism
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About A Girl
Oh, the relief to be back and writing these little blog posts again—the feel-good twitch of fingers over a keyboard: how I missed you! And you of course, too, dear readers, whoever you might be, if you be. You’ll have … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony burgess, espionage, fiction, murder, romance, the woman in white, victorian, wilkie collins
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Big Fish
“Moby-Dick” is one of those books that every reader has either read, attempted to read, or lied about reading at one point or another. Doubtless even the most unlearned of us have not escaped mention or parody of the Leviathan, … Continue reading
Victoria de Columbia
There is a point, within the first fifteen pages of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’snovel “One Hundred Years Of Solitude,” when Jose Arcadio Buendia, the leader of a motley, demoralized group of explorers intent on plowing through the jungle to discover the … Continue reading
How “The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards” Changed Me
Oh my. Today I have finished an incredible piece by the debut author, Kristopher Jansma, and I must say, oh my. At once moving and enrapturing and crushing, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards is written for us, for writers, and it … Continue reading
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Tagged debut authors, fiction, Jansma, unchangeable spots of leopards, unreliable narrator, writers, writing
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David Mitchell’s “The Jesuits: A History”
“ ‘Religion is the most dangerous thing in the world. It is not little girls in their communion frocks and silly holy pictures and the Children of Mary. It is,’ he said, ‘high explosive, dynamite, the,’ he smiled at the … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony burgess, david mitchell, history, ignatius loyola, jesuits, religion
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Flann O’Brien’s “The Various Lives Of Keats And Chapman (Including ‘The Brother’)”
The relationship between Flann O’Brien (also Brian O’Nolan, also Myles na Gopaleen) to the other canonical Irish writers of the twentieth century: Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett, is a tricky one. For the average reader, that is the reader who was … Continue reading
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Tagged column, comedy, Dublin, flann o'brien, ireland, literature, pub
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An extremely good tidbit of advice from dailywritingtips.com.
An extremely good tidbit of advice from dailywritingtips.com. It’s a good reminder for when the juices don’t quite flow right and the motivation to keep writing becomes syrupy and unreliable.
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The Brandon Blakely 