Book Review: With Bold Knife and Fork by M.F.K. Fisher
If I were to host one of those hypothetical dinner parties with the guest list that breaks the barrier between the living and the dead, one of the first envelopes I addressed would bear the name M.F.K....
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Any time a novelist borrows a protagonist – from history or from the fiction of others – he balances the uncertain task of creating a new path while matching his footsteps to those previously trod. He...
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“They traveled the roads and byways of the West, unhurriedly and with no set itinerary, changing their route according to the whim of the moment, the premonitory sign of a flock of birds, the lure of...
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View ArticleBook Review: The Marrowbone Marble Company by Glenn Taylor
For a novel to immerse the reader in a specific place and time, so that the reader feels the blast of a furnace, smells the earth, and hears the cicadas is an accomplishment. When the author populates...
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View ArticleBook Review: The Lovers by Vendela Vida
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“The Foundational Theory of Chronodiegetics: Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time...
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Interview: Wandering Through Time with Award Winning Author Charles Yu
The protagonist of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, a time machine repair technician by the name of Charles Yu, has been described by his creator, a writer by the name of Charles Yu,...
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Several things happened a few weeks ago. I watched a documentary in a meeting for kindergarten parents. The latest Harry Potter movie was released. We took the kids to see a Star Trek exhibit at a...
View ArticleBook Review: With Bold Knife and Fork by M.F.K. Fisher
If I were to host one of those hypothetical dinner parties with the guest list that breaks the barrier between the living and the dead, one of the first envelopes I addressed would bear the name M.F.K....
View ArticleBook Reviews: The More I Owe You by Michael Sledge
Any time a novelist borrows a protagonist – from history or from the fiction of others – he balances the uncertain task of creating a new path while matching his footsteps to those previously trod. He...
View ArticleBook Review: The Infinite Plan by Isabelle Allende
“They traveled the roads and byways of the West, unhurriedly and with no set itinerary, changing their route according to the whim of the moment, the premonitory sign of a flock of birds, the lure of...
View ArticleExtremism?
Apparently I’m an extremist, or, at least my political views have now been dubbed “extreme.” I didn’t realize that it was extreme to believe in upholding the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, or...
View ArticleBook Review: The Marrowbone Marble Company by Glenn Taylor
For a novel to immerse the reader in a specific place and time, so that the reader feels the blast of a furnace, smells the earth, and hears the cicadas is an accomplishment. When the author populates...
View ArticleInterview: Glenn Taylor, Author of The Marrowbone Marble Company
“With storytelling or any art form, we know it somehow, and we have to do it because our blood remembers.” — Glenn Taylor. Though he teaches and lives just outside of Chicago these days, at his core,...
View ArticleBook Review: The Lovers by Vendela Vida
For all that literature explores the gnarled paths of the human condition, the fragility of the human psyche – particularly under the hammer of grief – is often neglected or misinterpreted territory....
View ArticleBook Review: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
“The Foundational Theory of Chronodiegetics: Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time...
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Interview: Wandering Through Time with Award Winning Author Charles Yu
The protagonist of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, a time machine repair technician by the name of Charles Yu, has been described by his creator, a writer by the name of Charles Yu,...
View ArticleKids for Sale?
Several things happened a few weeks ago. I watched a documentary in a meeting for kindergarten parents. The latest Harry Potter movie was released. We took the kids to see a Star Trek exhibit at a...
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