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LITERATURE: Glimmertrain #49
Oh, I know. Don’t believe anything I say; I haven’t yet turned away from the Glimmertrains since there were about a dozen of them to go through. But I’m into the idea of mixed genres and fiction together with non-fiction … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Glimmertrain #48
I cannot leave a book unfinished, unless it’s really bad. I have my textbooks, which are compilations of classic and contemporary works including poetry, safely in their place in line upon my hearth. Because there are good stories in them. … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Glimmertrain #47
"Lists" by Mika Tanner is a story about a couple undergoing a divorce, and the wife’s visit back to their apartment to go through their material possessions to equitably dispose of them. It is very well written, first person pov … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Glimmertrain #47
What is good about reading let’s say, short story collections continuously for example, is that the reading mind adjusts to a certain set of points that are consistently sought, noted as present or lacking. New things come up, as in … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: McCarthy
Thanks to Slushpile for the heads up on Cormac McCarthy’s latest, Country for Old Men, due out tomorrow. He includes an excerpt and link to Jeffrey Lent’s review in the Washington Post (critique MY McCarthy? Why he’s right up there … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Didascalicon
"Now it was a Pythagorean teaching that similars are comprehended by similars: so that, in a word, the rational soul could by no means comprehend all things unless it were also composed of all of them…" "But we ought not … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Glimmertrain #47
Absolutely beautiful story is this issue by Lisa Graley, "Crossing with Sassafras." The story is in the first person pov, the narrator an old man repairing a fence because he sees the ghost of his goat, Sassafras flying freely about … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Didascalicon
What better place to establish a home base from which to venture out than The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor – A Medieval Guide to the Arts? I started this last year, but without all my faculties. I find … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Glimmertrain #47
I have only started the stories in this issue, but they seem to be relationship-oriented and so the characters’ reactions to current events are what establishes the themes as well as the voice. While relying upon the past, The Exile … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Glimmertrain
Done with Glimmertrain Issue #44, and found a wonderful, wonderful piece by Mary Relindes Ellis called "A Dirty Woman." It is the best in the issue as far as I am concerned, and the one that stands out for its … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: McCarthy & Parker
Good grief, do I miss phenomenal writing! Yes, I suppose I must admit that the classics don’t become that without good reason. I’m plodding my way through short story lit journals that shall remain nameless for now (after all, I … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Glimmertrain #44
While I realize I’m coming down off a McCarthy and Parker high, and I knew that withdrawal would be hard, I’m really missing the jolt of a well turned phrase. This issue has major contest winners, and some pretty credentialed … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Suttree in Afterglow
The morning has me still thinking about him, and as I go my morning rounds along the web, I find another mention of him, on The Great Lettuce Head–he who started me on the McCarthy’s path. And a comment on … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Suttree’s Resolution
One point was made at the Wesleyan conference that I hadn’t considered: That the necessary change as a result of the event or series of events is not necessarily one that takes place within the protagonist, but in fact, may … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Suttree’s Climax
Thirteen pages to go and McCarthy is whipping us up into a Godalmighty climax that should leave us exhausted. Drugs, good or bad, would be hardpressed to produce worse nightmares than those in Suttree’s head. Methinks McCarthy had a helluva … Continue reading Continue reading
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology