coming of age | coming of age
Mar.06.2013
Richard Ford’s new novel, Canada, is a studied, labored book with a wonderful core--Part Two--when the narrator, Dell, finally arrives in a god-forsaken part of Canada and continues his coming of age tale in a setting, and among people, that is truly arresting and disturbing.
Part One, about...
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Dec.17.2012
I’m looking at The Outsiders through the lens of Catcher in the Rye because Catcher's large footprint overlaps into the Coming of Age genre and so many people are familiar with Salinger's literary classic.
The Outsiders is about two groups of feuding teenagers, Greasers and Socses (...
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Nov.14.2012
Family life, how one family differs from another, how crazy things can get and how wonderful, all the ins and outs and what-have-you's have been a long fascination for me in my writing. In Blackbird Fly I explored the damaging nature of secrets and the question of searching for who you really are....
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Oct.16.2012
What we take away from a book is a function of who we are, the sum of our life experiences--our world view. After two readings thirty years apart and a great deal of study and analysis, these are my insights into the book.
The teenage years are when we reject our parents and look for answers...
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Aug.28.2012
Daniel Haight is today’s guest on “A Book and a Chat” raised on Star Wars and Star Trek he has always been a fan of science-fiction. He wrote his first story when in Sixth Grade, an epic tome featuring the adventures of a guy named ‘Daytona Titanium’. From this early experience Daniel went on...
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Jul.10.2012
Catching up on a couple of show I missed from being sick, I am glad to say I have Christopher Profeta author of “Live in Pieces” a set of three stories that fall together beautifully to show that we are never too old to come of age.
Chris is a stay at home father dad who teaches writing at nights...
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Jun.11.2012
A discontented, talented, but unfocused Harry Potter goes to college – sort of.
Julia walks best friends Quentin and James to a college interview and leaves them at the door. Inside, Quentin and James find their interviewer dead and call 911. One of the paramedics, a beautiful woman, hands...
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Jan.30.2012
We had just been introduced when I decided to take the next big step in my coming of age process. It was a bold move for someone who always thought before she acted... on anything, but it felt right. I will admit I knew little about what I was getting myself into. I had no idea how this would...
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Dec.27.2011
Some books make you think that the biggest mistake one can make in life is being born. There's a bit of that here, but there is also an element of inexplicable fortitude and good fortune.
John and Robert Darnton, the one a successful journalist, the other a distinguished...
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Aug.13.2011
My guest on today’s one hour “A Book and a Chat” is another member of the “Class of 2K11” the group of debut authors whose books are released in 2011.
Amy Fellner Dominy debut novel “OyMG” has come from a literary background, from those early days of short stories, and like many of the...
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