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The Literary Necrophiliacs are back
or, in this case, let’s not carry on http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/07/jeeves-sebastian-faulks-wodehouse-novel?INTCMP=SRCH I’ve gone on before about literary necrophilia, but thi… more →
Martin Crookall - Author For Sale
Reciprocity and Reunion with Richard Ford
wrote 4 days ago: I renew my faith in great writing by turning back to my usual suspects: Richard Ford, Don DeLillo, T … more →
The Place of the Novelist
wrote 3 weeks ago: “I feel that with my decision to devote myself to the novel I took on one of the responsibilit … more →
“How free is a woman?”
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wrote 1 month ago: An Exploration of Female Desires through the Personae of Ai by: Samantha Lê One afternoon, I sat on … more →
The Literary Necrophiliacs are back
wrote 2 months ago: or, in this case, let’s not carry on http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/07/jeeves-sebast … more →
If The World Was The Republic
wrote 2 months ago: How strange and foreign such a world would be which, in the course of pre-destiny, would leave the c … more →
Anne Sexton: “The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator”
wrote 2 months ago: A Special Series on Anne Sexton by Samantha Lê (part 4 of 4) | Read: Part 1 – Anne Sexton: Summoning … more →
Anne Sexton: “Menstruation at Forty”
wrote 3 months ago: A Special Series on Anne Sexton by Samantha Lê (part 3 of 4) | Read: Part 1 – Anne Sexton: Summoning … more →
This is Not a Book Review.
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wrote 3 months ago: I have just finished reading Haruki Murakami’s Sputnik Sweetheart. It seems to me that I have set fo … more →
Anne Sexton: “In Celebration of my Uterus”
wrote 3 months ago: Special Series on Anne Sexton by Samantha Lê (part 2 of 4) | Read: Part 1 – Anne Sexton: Summoning t … more →
Anne Sexton: Summoning the Self through the Body
wrote 3 months ago: A Special Series on Anne Sexton by Samantha Lê (part 1 of 4) Anne Sexton As a confessional poet, Ann … more →
Arthur Ransome: And After
wrote 4 months ago: Arthur Ransome lived another twenty years after the publication of Great Northern?, and was buried i … more →
Arthur Ransome: Farewell and Adieu to you fair Spanish Ladies - Part 2
wrote 4 months ago: But there was still to be one more book: the local veto, it seems, was lifted at least once. Great N … more →
Arthur Ransome: The Might-Have-Been
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wrote 4 months ago: In 1931, fresh from the completion of Swallowdale, Arthur Ransome conceived of an idea that he confi … more →
Gently Read Literature, 2013 Winter Issue
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wrote 4 months ago: Well, it’s here in time for the new year–the first subscription-based issue of Gently Re … more →
Recognising Robert Neill: Witch Bane
wrote 4 months ago: Apologies for the severely belated nature of this post, which should have appeared between the posts … more →
Arthur Ransome: Farewell and Adieu to you fair Spanish Ladies - Part 1
wrote 4 months ago: Missee Lee has always been the lowest selling of the Swallows & Amazons series, no doubt because … more →
Arthur Ransome: The Great Summer - Part 2
wrote 5 months ago: The Swallows, however, were not destined to have an adventure on the Lake ever again, except, perhap … more →
Robert Frost: Clarity through Form and Suspension (Conclusion)
wrote 5 months ago: A Special Series on Robert Frost by Samantha Lê (part 6 of 6) | Part 1 – Robert Frost: Clarity … more →
Interlude - “I have under my arm the best children's book of 1937.”
wrote 5 months ago: “I have under my arm the best children’s book of 1937.” “Oh? When did you finish it?” The abov … more →
