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Dec.03.2011
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William Faulkner – Three Famous Short Novels – Old Man
This is where Cormac McCarthy must have gotten his inspiration for apocalyptic storylines, salted with social injustice. The storyline, quickly:
A convict, one of a chain gang caught up in a flood...
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Nov.12.2011
Grendel, by John Gardner
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Beowulf has been an on-again, off-again read for me since high school. Then, a few years ago, Seamus Heaney’s translation of the tale placed me in the first row for Beowulf, and so when I came across Gardner’s telling of Grendel’s...
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Sep.12.2011
The ongoing coverage of those dark September days of 2001 focused on myriad stories of unspeakable loss and mind-numbing heroism, of heartwrenching sorrow, of uniting horror, yet today ten years later, one brief interview unseen by most brings a tear to me, one moment...
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Apr.19.2011
"How do you keep yourself grounded?"
"With difficulty."
The woman being interviewed here is Carol Martin-Sperry, in this month's British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy magazine. Carol is a psychotherapist with more than twenty year's experience. She's written books...
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Apr.06.2011
I remember as a little boy pointing to things, and calling out their names to one parent or another. As I got older and watched other tots doing the same thing, it occurred that this wasn't just an exercise in recognition and naming through language. This was what now seems a deep-seated...
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Mar.24.2011
In the two posts, World Crises And The Fiction Writer ~ Can They Help Humanity? and Two Post Mashup + A Video ~ Writers’ Responsibilities, various ideas of the writer’s responsibilities to society were explored.
One of the comments, from a man who has taught English for over 40 years, was...
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Mar.22.2011
Reprinted from: http://nfaa.wordpress.com The video is on the original post...
Earlier this month, I wrote a post called, World Crises And The Fiction Writer ~ Can They Help Humanity?.
Four days ago, I read Ollin Morales post, What Ever Happened to The Timely Artist?
In his post, Ollin said:
“…...
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Mar.17.2011
I think the craft of Freemasonry was far more popular years ago, but the brotherhood is still around and going well these days, although not everyone knows what it is. It seems to have faded from the limelight over the years. Most people I've met seem to think of it as an all-boys club where they...
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Mar.15.2011
I’m engaged in a discussion over in the forums of BestsellerBound about why the theme of my soon-to-be-published book will make it hard to sell.
I knew as I planned and wrote it that it would be, at the very best, a niche-book–of interest to a rather small audience.
While I certainly didn’t even...
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Mar.09.2011
Here I go again, inching out on that limb I keep bending with the weight of speculation…
The title of today’s post could seem useless as a question since folks can point to a multitude of works of fiction that have aided humanity, to varying degrees, in its seemingly never-ending struggle.
To...
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