Category Archives: LITERATURE

LITERATURE: Publishing

Posted on April 9, 2004 by Susan

Every writer, no matter what they say, keeps the seed of publication somewhere in the freezer compartment of his brain, ready to take out and plant on a computer, feed with warm words, water with emotion, hold it out to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Literary Weblogs

Posted on April 4, 2004 by Susan

The Reading Experience has an interesting entry on the focus of literary weblogs, and the emerging patterns of logical critique, insight on newly published works, the linking of literary-minded bloggers to create a constantly upgraded level of information, etc. to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: New Link

Posted on March 30, 2004 by Susan

I am a terrible person, and a failure as a woman. But I’m stealing a link off of a blogger I just met, and holding supper off from a hungry husband to do it because it’s great. So, thanks to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Lyrics

Posted on March 27, 2004 by Susan

Can’t resist sharing a few lyrics from Waylon’s beautiful CD for kids, “Cowboys, Sisters, Rascals & Dirt.” I gave a copy to my niece for a drive back home from Connecticut to Virginia, alone with four-year old Zoee. it drove … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Modernism, etc.

Posted on March 19, 2004 by Susan

Weird. In the same week wherein I revealed perhaps unjustly a dislike and discontent with the way art and literature seems to have developed, and predicted a new wave shortly coming, I see a posting at 2 Blowhards relative to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Contemporary Poetry

Posted on March 17, 2004 by Susan

With some proper punctuation, sometimes a missing subject and a verb or two, I feel that some of what I read in poems written lately just are short stories lacking the aforementioned. Or else, as in the current trend in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Atwood Interview

Posted on March 9, 2004 by susan

Just a few posts ago I spoke of odd coincidences. Today, another: Shortly after receiving an e-mail from a fellow Narrativer asking my horoscope sign, I picked up the mail and thumbed through the Writer’s Digest after happily seeing Margaret … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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SELF ANALYSIS & LITERATURE: Yes, really.

Posted on February 23, 2004 by Susan

Well I’m on the road to emotional recovery, having spent the last hour crying my eyes out over “My Big, Fat, Obnoxious Fiancé”. My television habits are Discovery and PBS, and very few of the dramas because I tend to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Reading

Posted on February 23, 2004 by Susan

There is a terrific post today on Pedablogue titled “Teaching Rereading” about teaching the fine points of rereading literature. Check it out, follow the links he mentions–there’s a lot to it. Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: The War Poets of England

Posted on February 17, 2004 by Susan

Amazing what you can stumble across when traversing the internet. I came across this website of War Poets when following a Google search to my site for Wilfrid Gibson’s The Stone, which I had posted back in October because it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Lost Again

Posted on February 16, 2004 by Susan

Here’s a category I haven’t posted to in a long while–Interactive Fiction. It’s another of those things I WANT to get back into, but along with the pile of unread books, has been woefully neglected. Luckily, one of our writers … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & WRITING: Children’s Market

Posted on February 15, 2004 by Susan

Does anybody out there know if the children’s market is as open right now as they seem to claim it is? Not that I need another path opened up to me right now, but it is something I’ve had on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: The Gilded Six-Bits Part IV

Posted on February 6, 2004 by susan

Hurston’s story of a young couple, deeply in love with each other to the point of comfort takes a turn after she has us settled into a warm and comfortable romantic mood. But as we all know, the climax is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: The Gilded Six-Bits Part III

Posted on February 5, 2004 by susan

I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before, but I now realize that my little essays on some of these short stories are meaningless without having the story available to read and come up with your own thoughts … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Hurston’s “The Gilded Six Bits” Part II

Posted on February 3, 2004 by susan

Hurston’s exposition, in the first sentence, is one of setting, and symbolism and metaphor are subtley rampant within the story. “It was a Negro yard around a Negro house in a Negro settlement that looked to the payroll of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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