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rockymountainreader wrote 12 hours ago: By Henry James I She had walked with her friend to the top of the wide steps of the Museum, those th … more →

Tags: Authors, short- short stories, Writers

The Life You've Imagined1 comment

thebackofmymind wrote 2 days ago: ~~~~~ “It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined” - Henry James ~~~ … more →

Tags: Living the Life I Want, moving on, Quotes, Life, Random

My Favorite New Books of 2009, Part 320 comments

A D Jameson wrote 2 days ago: Part 1 Part 2 MY FOUR FAVORITE NEW BOOKS OF 2009, CONT’D #3. Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barth … more →

Tags: Arthur Rimbaud, donald barthelme, frank sullivan, From Baudelaire to Surrealism, Gustave Courbet, Harold Rosenberg, Hiding Man, Honoré Daumier, James Thurber

What Chekhov Can Teach Us about Endings1 comment

bakerkline wrote 3 days ago: Fiction writer David Jauss analyzes Chekhov’s endings and explains why they were revolutionary … more →

Tags: guest blogs, The Creative Process, Anton Chekhov, Creative Process, david jauss, Fiction Writing, Inspiration, Short Stories, Thoughts

Same Voices, Same Rooms

mollydolly5 wrote 2 weeks ago: Mama is a humorous ghost who floats about the house in long, white cotton nightgowns dotted with blu … more →

Tags: 1961, Crossword, "deborah kerr", Estate, Gothic, gown, Other Voices Other Rooms, Solitaire, the innocents

Ian McEwan and "The Use of Poetry"

Jake Seliger wrote 2 weeks ago: The main use poetry in “The Use of Poetry” is seduction: specifically, the seduction of … more →

Tags: essays, Links, Short Stories, Fiction, Ian McEwan, New Yorker, The New Yorker, The use of poetry

Jumping Jack Flash

normanmonkey wrote 2 weeks ago: But it’s alright now, in fact it’s a gas Jumping Jack Flash, it’s a gas, gas, gas … more →

Tags: Friends, qpr, single london, Flavio Briatore

a tale of three writers you can really trust2 comments

msbaroque wrote 2 weeks ago: There are not, in the scheme of things, as it may have become apparent in my essay on Zadie Smith on … more →

Tags: Books, Living With Words, Michael Donaghy, Poetry, the Line on Beauty, books you can trust, Colm Toibin, Irish music

Nobody Reads/I'll Write About It1 comment

goodtimejohnny wrote 2 weeks ago: Reading is in serious trouble (we are in serious trouble). Right now I’m at a Borders bookstor … more →

Tags: Harsh Criticism, Literature, Prose, Modernism, twilight, new moon, Stephanie Meyer, James Joyce, Classic Literature

Men in Aprons12 comments

Karen Resta wrote 3 weeks ago: I’ve been thinking about aprons lately. What they are, what they mean, what they look like and … more →

Tags: Art, Books, Culture, History, Social Aspiration, aprons, Princess Casamassima, work clothes

Don't make me go English-major on your ass

superdupergome wrote 4 weeks ago: Last Thursday in my American Literature class I had to give a presentation on the novella “The … more →

Tags: pop culture, English major, twilight, Movies, Literature, Beast in the Jungle, Celebrities, Stupid People, Critical Thinking

Writing and Iguanas, Henry James and paralysis

kategale wrote 4 weeks ago: November 22, 2009  Forty miles of running this week, and tomorrow I will make it fifty.  Stress is g … more →

Tags: Writing and Iguanas, paralysis, John Malcovich

When radio goes wrong...

LW wrote 1 month ago: source: Pandora   From radio broadcasts around the U.K. and the Empire: bloopers, blunders, and … more →

Tags: BBC, Roderick Hudson, radio, Bloopers, radiofail, Radio Fail

No.29 - Washington Square

adlaark wrote 1 month ago: Hello Book club no.29 was held at my flat on Saturday. Our text this time was “Washington Squa … more →

Tags: Washington Square, wet drip, male-female split, Dr Sloper, Catherine Sloper

Costume drama movies ca 1960s to 80s: Daisy Miller and The Europeans (with comments on Maurice, Jefferson in Paris, and the 2009 Emma)10 comments

ellenandjim wrote 1 month ago: Gertrude Wentworth (Lisa Eichhorn) in landscape with gazebo, 1979 Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala Europeans … more →

Tags: Costume drama, Film Adaptations, Movies, Women's films, cranford, Jefferson in Paris, Maurice, merchant-ivory-jhabvala

Who, at the end of the day, can really resist the smarter sort of flirt—other than footmen from Vevey?

Mark wrote 1 month ago: Emily Dickinson, daguerreotype taken at Mount Holyoke in late 1846 or early 1847 Our lives are Swiss … more →

Tags: Emily Dickinson, Literary criticism, Poetics, Poetry, Sexuality, Alfred Habegger, calvinism, daisy miller, italy (american attitudes toward)

The Portrait of a Lady; Henry James

chloecooper wrote 1 month ago: I am ashamed to say it took me longer than usual to finish this book, especially since I loved readi … more →

Tags: Portait of a Lady, Review

Oscar & Henry on Amazon5 comments

msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: (strange as that sounds…) Look! You can pre-order it! “For Henry, having two countries m … more →

Tags: Poetry, Shameless Puffs, Oscar Wilde, Katy Evans-Bush, ira lightman, oscar & henry, poetry pamphlets, rack press

Weekly NaNoWriMo Updated

Tess Anderson wrote 1 month ago: Well – to say that things didn’t go as planned would be understating the change in direction that oc … more →

Tags: writing, NaNoWriMo, Horror, Nikolai Gogol, Poe, Lovecraft, M R James, Guy de Maupassant, o. henry


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