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Dalva, by Jim Harrison – Comment on the whole book
Dalva – I started reading the book when the night was settling down, in a small tent somewhere lost in the woods along the Appalachian trail – my hiking mate was at that time already fast asleep. But… more →
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The Great Gatsby - a Capacity for Hopefulness, Sparkling Decadence, and Tragedy That Touches Us All
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wrote 1 month ago: The Great Gatsby, written in 1925, is one of the greatest American novels. The Great Gatsby book Y … more →
My Ultimate Reading Challenge - The Reading List for My PhD Candidacy Examinations
wrote 1 month ago: Part of the requirements for the doctoral degree in English at the University of Notre Dame are writ … more →
Book Review - Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
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wrote 1 month ago: I read Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Prodigal Summer’ last year and liked it very much. I had wanted to read … more →
A Very Squiggly Line (tHotS)
wrote 5 months ago: She was terrified that Rosa had died because she had said she would. Current conquest: The House of … more →
Bees and Honey (TSLoB)
wrote 5 months ago: Today’s read was Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees. I’d heard that this book … more →
Stop and Go (HoSaf Part 2)
wrote 5 months ago: After about a week of whirlwind holiday and back-to-school activity, I finally had time to sit down … more →
Bits and Pieces (HoSaF Part 1)
wrote 5 months ago: House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III: Early Thoughts Going into this book, I had no idea what to … more →
Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), RIP
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wrote 1 year ago: Photo of Ray Bradbury. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) [Reblogged from my literary blog at http://michaelp … more →
Melanie Rae Thon's "In This Light" ~ my review at The Iowa Review
wrote 1 year ago: Several months ago I wrote a review of Melanie Rae Thon’s volume of new and selected stories, … more →
Latest book review of Hillary Jordan's "When She Woke" in The Collagist
wrote 1 year ago: http://www.dzancbooks.org/the-collagist/2012/4/13/when-she-woke-by-hillary-jordan.html … more →
Developing Tension via Reminiscent Narration in Richard Ford’s “Communist”
wrote 1 year ago: “My mother once had a boyfriend named Glen Baxter. This was in 1961.” These opening lines of Richard … more →
A Prelude To The End
wrote 2 years ago: My professor informed my Contemporary American Literature class that he would be giving each of us a … more →
2011/20 Homer and Langley
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wrote 2 years ago: I remember when I was growing up my dad had a copy of E L Doctorow’s Ragtime on the boo … more →
Everything is illuminated by Foer
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wrote 3 years ago: Everything is illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer I started to read ‘Everything is illuminated … more →
Let The Great World Spin
wrote 3 years ago: The majority of Colum McCann’s novel Let The Great World Spin Takes place in and around New Yo … more →
OMG...BLAH BLAH BLAH
wrote 3 years ago: Stephen King wrote another mind melter. Whoa. Hold up, wait a minute. Who cares is what I’m c … more →
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story
wrote 3 years ago: Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story by Paul Auster is so short that it feels like something of a che … more →
Word Porn: Sherman Alexie - "Indian Killer" (1996)
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wrote 4 years ago: Having established his slot in the contemporary American canon with his 1993 collection The Lone Ran … more →
Word Porn: "The Tortilla Curtain" (1995)
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wrote 4 years ago: “Did you know that the U.S. accepted more immigrants last year than all the other countries of … more →
