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Tag Archives: American Literature
The White Whale
I am listening to the audiobook of Moby Dick. It’s madness, of course. In Melville’s day there was a different term for madness, monomania. You can look it up. We would call it obsession. Obsession is interesting to writers. We … Continue reading
“So it goes.”
Since there isn’t anyone reading this blog, I think I will please myself alone and write about MY writer, the writer who wrote things for me, though he may not have known he was writing for a chubby girl in … Continue reading
“Write What You Know”
It’s the first and last rule of writing classes, but in the words of Montaigne, “What do I know?” That’s one of the problems with the rule, one of the mysteries (if I put it more properly). Writers don’t really … Continue reading
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Well, It’s Over!
The Bookish Affair 2017 just wrapped, and before the Crazy Squirrel and Kahlua kick in, I must blog about a book our outstanding keynote speaker Robert Wilder mentioned. You guessed it–The Great Gatsby. I’m planning to do two different entries … Continue reading
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Master Class
Perhaps you suspect you are about to read about F. Scott Fitzgerald. Good guess, but no. I will write about that incomparable work soon, but here I am going to write about a book I fell in love with when … Continue reading
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