Stumbled upon a book/pamphlet at the library book sale called Duty by the famous Episcopalian Bishop Phillips Brooks. It includes this quote which I thought worth passing along: Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. [...]
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There was a time when I would have reacted to the news of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s death with not only sadness but a blog post with links and commentary. Those days are gone, however, so allow me simply to point you towards my review of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
I am not really a short story person. I don’t have a lot of experience with the format and, although I have begun to read more short stories, I just don’t find it my preferred form. But I figured I should sample widely so as to try and gauge what is out there. I am [...]
Interesting article in the New York Times about authors whose “adult novels” books get picked up by YA imprints. The author, Margo Rabb, speaks from experience: When my agent called to tell me that my novel, “Cures for Heartbreak,” had sold to a publisher, she said, “I have good news and bad news.” The good [...]
The latest addition of books to come my way via the US postal system.
Do we need to know how fiction works? Is theory ultimately of no use because fiction/novel “is corrosive to systematic thought”?
–> Ring of Hell: The Story of Chris Benoit and the Fall of the Pro Wrestling Industry by Matthew Randazzo V Publishers Weekly In June of 2007, the professional wrestling community was rocked by the suicide of wrestler Chris Benoit, after murdering his wife and seven-year-old son. In this wide-ranging expose, crime reporter Randazzo demonstrates [...]
Richard Lewis has become one of those authors whose books I read as soon as they are released. Every since his first book, The Flame Tree, I have enjoyed reading his intelligent and unique take on the young reader genre. I have enjoyed interviewing him via both podcast and email. And I check in on [...]