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The New Narrative Review: January 2012
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The New Narrative Review. A lifetime of books. One week at a time. Friday, January 20, 2012. LCC: PS2116 .D3 1900. Is Daisy Miller a slut or does she just act like one? A crude way to put it, I know. This is the question that Henry James's protagonist Winterbourne cannot seem to answer. Nancy Bentley. Has written that so much of James's novels consist of "girl watching." I'm sure the category works for James's other works, but it seems to me to be a most apt description of his novella Daisy Miller. Forgi...
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The New Narrative Review: Hiatus
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The New Narrative Review. A lifetime of books. One week at a time. Friday, March 16, 2012. Hiatus is a horrible word in blogging, but at times it becomes a necessary one. On the "About Me" section of this blog it reads "ASK is a writer, editor, and PhD." Now, I'm actually getting paid for the editing portion of that description. Among the things I've had on my plate lately:. Revising a dissertation chapter for journal publication. Working on a conference presentation on Ishmael Reed's Juice. Still, becau...
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The New Narrative Review: February 2012
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The New Narrative Review. A lifetime of books. One week at a time. Wednesday, February 29, 2012. Dreams from My Father (1995). Title: Dreams from My Father. Publisher: Three Rivers Press. LCC: E185.97.O23 A3 2004. I had wanted to write about the influence of Bladwin's writing on Barack Obama and then I stumbled upon an essay by Colm Tobin and thought, "Why bother? It's been done better before." Click here. Links to this post. Friday, February 03, 2012. Author: William Wells Brown. The first novel to be p...
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The New Narrative Review: The Professor of Desire (1977)
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The New Narrative Review. A lifetime of books. One week at a time. Friday, March 09, 2012. The Professor of Desire (1977). Title: The Professor Desire. Publisher: Library of America. LCC: PS3568.O855 A6 2006. No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex.". The Professor of Desire. Is the second book of Roth's Kepesh trilogy and marks a stylistic departure from The Breast. The earlier novel is a post- Playboy.
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The New Narrative Review: September 2011
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The New Narrative Review. A lifetime of books. One week at a time. Friday, September 30, 2011. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991). Title: Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company. Price: Unknown (Bought to get Amazon order over the $25 mark for free shipping). LCC: HV8148.B22 S54 1991. I always was a man of hard work. After the success of The Wire. I've become obsessed with Simon's work and I decided to track down the book that helped launch his career.
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The New Narrative Review: November 2011
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The New Narrative Review. A lifetime of books. One week at a time. Wednesday, November 30, 2011. Happy 176th Birthday, Mark Twain! I hope you got something real pretty. Links to this post. Friday, November 25, 2011. Author: Daniel J. Boorstin. Title: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America. LCC: E169.12 B66 1992. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America. Is underwritten by a nostalgic conservatism, tinged by pessimism and hostile to people in the aggregate. Finally, these trips were intended...
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The New Narrative Review: December 2011
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The New Narrative Review. A lifetime of books. One week at a time. Friday, December 30, 2011. My Year in Books 2011. Greetings Narrative Reviewers to our first annual "My Year in Books" segment. Here you'll find a complete listing of my yearly non-academic or semi-academic reading and back links to the appropriate entries. I set out this year wanting to read the following twelve books:. 1 One Russian Novel. 2 Don DeLillo, Libra. 3 E L Doctorow, Waterworks. 4 William Gibson, Pattern Recognition. Presents ...
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The New Narrative Review: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
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The New Narrative Review. A lifetime of books. One week at a time. Friday, March 02, 2012. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Title: The Importance of Being Earnest. Publisher: Oxford World Classics. The Importance of Being Earnest. But all of this requires the play's audience or its characters to ask a simple question. How does an orphan child, found in a rail station cloak room, have a brother in the first place? It's a giant plot hole and the entire play sinks into it. Humor was all the rage in t...
