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Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Reading Notes

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Sometimes, I will read any style if the subject is what I want. Or, I will read any subject if the style is what I want. Best practices...

Saturday, January 27, 2018

Ursula K. Le Guin: Telling It

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“Interactivity in the sense of the viewer controlling the text is also nightmarish, when interpreted to mean that the viewer can rewrite th...

Monday, May 14, 2012

McGuane: "Swallowing Hot Soup Upside Down"

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Here's a piece from Thomas McGuane's Panama, a novel that made a lot more sense for me in 2006 or so than when I first read it back ...

Monday, July 18, 2011

Hemingway's Show-and-Tell

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Here's a favorite passage from Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. I like what the young Hemingway is learning about the Russian w...

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Dorothy Dunnett's King Hereafter: A Descriptive Sample

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I love this book, this novel, about the historical Macbeth, Thorfinn of Orkney. Dunnett's lively mind and comprehensive research provide...

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