The literary world has taken a very big hit over the past few weeks. It lost three Ms -- Peter Mathiessen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and now Alistair MacLeod. It isn't that the writing world expected more from them. Mathiessen and Marquez were both sick and well past their writing primes. MacLeod,who hailed from Canada, brewed … Continue reading What is it about the letter M? Three writers’ passings
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Return of a Roth … necessary reading … rest, Peter
Of the Roth triumvirate (Philip, Joseph, and Henry), Henry usually gets overshadowed by the other two. After all, how can a maker of bildungsroman tales compete with portraits of a failing empire or the romantic uses of a piece of liver? Well, the work of Henry Roth -- lyric chronicler of childhood in Call It Sleep -- … Continue reading Return of a Roth … necessary reading … rest, Peter
Strange & Norrell: Where did that novel go?
A republished post by fantasy novelist Jo Walton asks a poignant question, Whatever happened to Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell? "It did about as well as any book can do," Walton writes, "….but five years later, it doesn't seem to have had any impact." Walton's piece first appeared in 2010 (hence the five years remark … Continue reading Strange & Norrell: Where did that novel go?
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