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Author Archives: susan
LITERATURE: The Body Artist – Theme
This is going to be a rather long excerpt, but it’s about one of my favorite ponderings, that of space of time and place, and I found it rather interesting because it reminds me of the "stop and look around" … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Ploughshares Fall 2004 Issue
No great shakes as yet, but this line stood out, from Intimacy and The Feast by Leslie Daniels: I thought you could see through the black letters on the page to the author, but they couldn’t see you. I thought … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Body Artist – Story
And so, with a more open-minded approach to the reading, (and I must say, relief that the rest of the book does not follow in the trail of style that upset me so in the first chapter), I find some … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Body Artist
While the technique Don DeLillo uses in this first chapter may be well thought out to bring us into the moment, I find it not only annoying in its repetitiveness, but in its intimacy of the narrator (which is an … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
The opening paragraph of this book is awesome: "Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Body Artist
What a horse’s arse I am. It’s no wonder the literary blogging community ignores me. I’d never heard of Don DeLillo and here I come to find out he’s on one of the 100 best novels ever written list for … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Short Story Blahs
Okay, I’m not afraid; I’ll start naming names. Rebecca Brown’s The Last Time I Saw You, in Ploughshares, Fall 200four: "I think the last time I saw you may have been that time near the church. I still like that … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Ploughshares
BTW, I’m actually an issue prior to the one I noted previously, since I found the earlier one unread and am weird about keeping things chronologically organized in my catching up of the lit journals. One of the stories in … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Some Final Thoughts
I feel as if I am letting myself down in not producing an overall picture of this novel. It has been with me (more so than I with it) for a month or more, and one that I had delved … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Resolutions
I need more time to come to grips with the powerful ending, fable-like and maybe moralistic, and as a point, must have had those of you who’ve read the book tittering with the "I know something you don’t" smugness at … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Finale
I liked it. It was a good book. This two or three hours’ sleep sucks big time. Yes, I have finished 100 Years, but I need go back because the pace picked up, the thirst for closure overtook my patient … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Endings
Just my usual trails of thinking in the dark hours of early morning. This time, on written book form versus interactive fiction, including games such as Silent Hill or Half Life 2 that can well be considered story. The key … Continue reading Continue reading
POETRY: Of Broken Men
Ah men, I want to spreadmy arms and take them in to drown their fear,to love them with a whore’s heart in the taking, not unwanted giving—only more they cannot carry through the night. Their tears cut deeper woundsof knowing, … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Purpose
A writer talks to a reader, tells him a story that cannot help but include a part of himself, a way of thinking that he cannot completely escape from, even in fiction. "Aureliano continued getting together in the afternoon with … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Dealing with Death
Gabriel Garcia Marquez must have gotten quite a few bellylaughs from the dissection of his novels over the years, and God in His mercy may he never see mine. As the Buendia family is whittled down to the last precious … Continue reading Continue reading
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology