Friday, January 26, 2018

Thank you, Ursula le Guin

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In her speech on receiving the National Book Foundation Medal in 2014, Ursula Le Guin, who died this past week at the age of 88, scolded p...
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Friday, December 8, 2017

William H. Gass: the Significance of Form and The Beauty of Language

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I was sorry to hear of the death of William H. Gass this week. He has been America's most important philosophical novelist, not i...
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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Annie Proulx Will be Awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

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The National Book Foundation has just announced that it will award  Annie Proulx the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American L...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Best British Stories: 2017--Part 4--Are These Pieces Stories?

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Are These Pieces Stories? . One might very well respond to the question that heads this commentary, “Who cares?” “What difference does ...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Best British Stories 2017: Part 3: From Realism to Magical Realism

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Vesna Main, “Safe” Perhaps because they are usually based on the mimetic notion of a “mirror in the roadway” reflecting the “real” worl...
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Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Best British Short Stories 2017--part 2--The Simple, Well-made Story

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Back in the day when short stories were popular in America (yes, there was such a time, during the forties and fifties, when a lot of peo...
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Friday, September 1, 2017

Best British Short Stories 2017: Intro

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I would like to make a couple of prefatory points about yearly collections of short stories that label themselves “Best of” before I begi...
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