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Standout Reads of 2011

Posted in Books, Literary Inspiration, Poetry, Reading, Writing, tagged , , on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Once again these are the books that stood out for me among those I read this past year. They were not necessarily published in 2011; many of them appeared decades ago, in fact.   Fiction Native, by William Haywood Henderson. Henderson’s gorgeous, delicate, but also ripping first novel explores some themes similar to those in [...]

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Lining Up the Silences

Posted in Books, Literary Inspiration, Reading, tagged , , , on June 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »

I’ve been poking around in Elaine Showalter’s critical review, A Jury of Her Peers, which assesses American women writers from 1650 to now. This review needed to be done, and I don’t mind that Showalter’s take on some writers, like Joyce Carol Oates and E. Annie Proulx, is a lot more positive than mine. Or [...]

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Bookshelves as GPS

Posted in Art, Books, Literary Inspiration, Reading, tagged , , , , on March 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »

I was recently on some website reading a post analyzing the future of paper vs e-publishing (probably in relation to the iPad release), and I saw a comment from another reader who implied that the only reason anyone would keep real books around anymore was to show off how smart they were. I found this [...]

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