Literary Essays | Literary Essays
Aug.14.2010
Between ongoing debates over governmental reforms, the plight of illegal immigrants, same-sex marriage, and a world economy as fragile as the Gulf Coast marshland, conversations focused on politics and sexuality have rarely been as heated as during the sweltering summer of 2010. The debates may be...
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Jul.18.2009
Anyone first introduced to the impassioned prose of Carlos Ruiz Zafón through his international bestseller, The Shadow of the Wind, will find it difficult to avoid comparing it to any follow-up to the novel. Where Zafón's latest release in English, The Angel's Game is concerned, that is both a good...
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May.16.2009
I think I've figured out why I am just now learning about the fantabulous works of author Carlos Ruiz Zafón. At the time that his novel The Shadow of the Wind enjoyed a year-long run on the bestseller lists in Spain in 2001, and then later duplicated that success in corners all around the global...
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Apr.16.2009
Maybe the question most relevant to our New Millennium times is not whether poets--or skateboarders, or soccer moms, or teachers, or politicians--dare to disturb the universe. Maybe it's whether everyday people accept that they do indeed possess such ability even without the glamorous looks or...
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Sep.14.2008
David Foster Wallace’s dismaying suicide sent me back to “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again,” his seminal, riotous essay on taking a Caribbean cruise. I had remembered, or thought I did, a sentence in the piece in which Wallace refers to his death as something exquisitely awful to...
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Jul.21.2008
Greetings to those of you seeing my name for the first name. You can click on over to http://tbdeluxe.blogspot.com/ for a look at the many essays I post on Blogger.
Cheers!
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