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LITERATURE: & Other Stuff
Good news: I find I have already read most of this issue of Confrontation when I first got it, and I remember that this is one that made me mad. The stories, most of them anyway, take place in Malaysia, … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Short stories and Interactive Fiction
Back into short story mode, I pulled out Confrontation No. 84/85. Don’t laugh–this is the Fall 03/Winter 04 issue. I’d love to write a novel, but even in my own life it seems I live in short story format. A … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: April Fool’s Day – Finale
“The outside was ceasing to be. After some quiet, clumps showered his casket. They bumped against the wood, first loudly and then more and more softly, as the earth thickened above him. Then only a dull thudding of shoveled soil, … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: April Fool’s Day Dying
“The candles glimmered. His visual screen was changing through all the nuances of brown, nuances of the soil out of which he was made, and it seemed that the art of dying, in dusty pastel hues, was being enacted right … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: April Fool’s Day
"One white wintry day, a green mufflerless truck dropped Milan Dolinar off at home, maimed. Milan carried his severed arm and leg in a potato sack, because he had heard that science could put his limbs back on. After several … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: April Fool’s Day
I have pretty much been brought to task by Mark and Steve to provide more in depth disclosures of my readings than I have been delivering here. While my interest in reading and writing about my reading has been under … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: April Fool’s Day
Just about finished with this, but wanted to write down some notes on both story and technique as well as content. As I’ve said, Josip Novakovich’s style is crisp to the point of bluntness in bringing Ivan Dolinar from youth … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: On the Table
While I haven’t exactly been keeping up on all fronts with the four to five selections to read or play concurrently as I had intended, I am getting through the pile a bit. Now that I’m pretty much done for … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: April Fool’s Day
I’m over halfway through this Josip Novakovich novel and the protagonist Ivan has been through a hell that Novakovich has presented in a colorful and deeply intimate telling of war that reminds me somewhat of Cormac McCarthy’s hard-hitting realism. What … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: April Fool’s Day
Ah, after controlled prosaic and refreshing bluntness in his story, Josip Novakovich gives us some wonderful poetry: "In the morning, loud rain knocked many yellow leaves off beeches and oaks. Drops hit the mud, splashing it. The wetness carried the … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Short Story Format
Last night I was delighted to be among the crowd applauding the premiere showing of a short film, "The Long Weekend" which was written and produced by Patrice Hamilton, an English teacher at Tunxis CC and a member of our … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: April Fool’s Day
Listen to this: "Ivan stood close to the tracks, elbowing an old man with medals and a woman smelling of garlic, with silver teeth and silvery eyes; everything looked silvery to Ivan through his tears. He surprised himself; he had … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: April Fool’s Day
I am finding Novakovich’s first novel very enjoyable. The language is not high imagery, yet there is enough description to put the necessary grounding base, although a constantly moving one, beneath the feet of the main character, Ivan Dolinar. Ivan, … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Didascalicon
In re-reading the Introduction to The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor, the thought strikes that I have perhaps asked as a favor of a friend, a reading list that points to some directions in reading to acquire knowledge of … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Jolts
Well, I’ve finished it–not my framing as I should be doing, but Michael Arnzen’s "100 Jolts." I think my favorite was "Convictions", and I’ll do a brief review. Let me enter here the questions Dr. Arnzen suggests on this story … Continue reading Continue reading
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The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology