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Category Archives: LITERATURE
LITERATURE: Ranked Rank
I well admire Crof at Writing Fiction, and read with much interest his list of "The Ten Most Harmful Novels." Especially since three of them have just been mentioned here recently. By harmful, he means the effect it leaves more … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE & REALITY: Suttree and Me
Okay, so who here knows what’s going on? Really? Don’t lie or try to slip one by me in a rowboat while I’m trying not to tip my own canoe. Because I’ll know, you see, I’ll know. I’ll see through … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Susie One-Note
As has always been my way, when I’m focused, I’m focused. So you’ll be hearing much about literature this summer here at Spinning, and in the reading and writing of it. Even moving out the piece I’m working on will … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Suttree
I’m still re-reading, and find that I can’t really just skim through because McCarthy’s writing style is not something that you can skim, nor would you want to. In fact, his work needs to be read several times, especially if … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Suttree
I’m finding things in Suttree I think I missed the first time around. It makes me think that even though I’m skimming through the first half over again, when I get beyond the point I’ve read before I may still … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Parker
Well, a surprising touch of the bizarre from Dorothy Parker. "Mrs. Hofstadter on Josephine Street" is a tale of a quiet couple hiring the services of chef/butler who came with glowing references, mostly given them by Horace (the butler) himself. … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Some Goodies
Neha got me thinking about re-reading Salinger’s "Catcher In The Rye," and I wandered over to the "finished" bookshelves and pulled it out to add to my "to be read" queue (goodness, I had an extra Q in queue!) marching … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Suttree
Had lost my way, backtracked a bit, no loss of awe the second time around. McCarthy gives a dreary life, well…life. Listen to this: "The old man gave him a little crooked grin, his jawseams grouted with black spittle." Tobacco … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Poetry
Here I am, pining away for poetry and via Languagehat I’m directed to Poets.org (which I forget to check in on since they’re not on my Bloglines listing) and their "31 Groundbreaking Works". Good grief. Looks to me like I … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Publishing Business
From The Reading Experience, and his references to an article by M. J. Rose at the Publishers Marketplace, and another by Maud Newton on her weblog, we get a dreary picture of the book publishing business. Yes, drearier and drearier, … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Parker
I don’t think I should be reading "The Portable Dorothy Parker" all the way through–many of the conversations are starting to sound too much alike, and I feel like I’m lost in "The Early Show" forever with Nick and Nora … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Parker
Okay, so I’ll probably flunk Nutrition because there’s so much to read, so much to write. No, not in the course–although that’s heavily overloaded with both, but in my choice of reading and my story-telling of writing. And I didn’t … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Learning through Reading
I have read several short stories in this collection, and am getting a comfortable feeling with Parker. She is sardonically relating her perception of the women of her time. She, ahead of her time, I looking back, both disrespectful of … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Eras
Dorothy Parker’s stuff, of course, great. Trying though, to consider the story in contemporary time. Once rewrote an Atwood story into a prior century version as my peers couldn’t relate to the thinking of the story time. No doubt about … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Joys of Publishing
Just proudly added a new link on my Amazon list in the right sidebar: The Prince of the Universe : Book I of the Shadow of the Starsby Kasandra M Strid. Proud because Kasandra is one of our Narratives writers … Continue reading Continue reading
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The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology