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Big Book, Big Evil: Tryst and Shoot
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Big Book, Big Evil. Sunday, December 14, 2008. That 'Camera' should have waited 20 years to find an English-language publisher is scandalous. That the wonderful Dalkey Archive has taken on the task is unsurprising. While Toussaint’s long, chatty sentences sometimes trick the translator Matthew B. Smith into losing his syntactical thread, this version admirably renders the frankness that makes Toussaint so alluring.". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A little of me is a lot. Maybe too much.
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Big Book, Big Evil: November 2008
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Big Book, Big Evil. Friday, November 21, 2008. In what ways can unrequited love occur? The classic tale requires that one falls for another who cannot return the love, and its variations are manifold. Alessandro Baricco's. Imagines unrequited love happening between the last two people on earth that we'd expect. War intervenes and his trips must end but he receives a final letter written in Japanese that will unravel his life. Each chapter is meticulously brief. Baricco's. Film adaptation of Silk. Is an e...
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Big Book, Big Evil: December 2008
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Big Book, Big Evil. Sunday, December 14, 2008. That 'Camera' should have waited 20 years to find an English-language publisher is scandalous. That the wonderful Dalkey Archive has taken on the task is unsurprising. While Toussaint’s long, chatty sentences sometimes trick the translator Matthew B. Smith into losing his syntactical thread, this version admirably renders the frankness that makes Toussaint so alluring.". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A little of me is a lot. Maybe too much. Novella on the Web.
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Big Book, Big Evil: September 2008
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Big Book, Big Evil. Tuesday, September 30, 2008. Borges and the Eternal Orangutans by Luis Fernando Verissmo. This labyrinthine novella scared me. I wasn't really sure I wanted to read it. After reading Luis Fernando Verissmo's superb The Club of Angels. I wanted more. But this? Such a strange title. And what's with the Fernando Botero cover? I started reading it anyway. And then I put it aside for over a year. It was just too strange, wasn't it? And so we read on until one of the characters clues us in ...
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Big Book, Big Evil: A Slack, Boneless, Affected Word
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Big Book, Big Evil. Thursday, November 6, 2008. A Slack, Boneless, Affected Word. Katherine Anne Porter preferred the term short novel. Which she called "a slack, boneless, affected word that we do not need to describe anything.". All four of them (. Old Mortality; Noon Wine; Pale Horse, Pale Rider;. Are collected with other works, including the oft-anthologized and masterful "The Jiliting of Granny Weatherall," in the lastest one-volume edition from Library of America. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Big Book, Big Evil: Crimes Against Brevity
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Big Book, Big Evil. Monday, November 15, 2010. Notices that the trend for longer books, fiction and non-fiction, goes against the contemporary desire for brevity in TV, film, and so forth. He offers up his own list to counteract the long-winded tomes. A few of these I have yet to read. 1 George Orwell: Animal Farm. 2 Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea. 3 Evelyn Waugh: The Loved One. 4 Henry James: The Turn of the Screw. 5 RL Stevenson: Treasure Island. 6 Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness. Novella on the Web.
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Big Book, Big Evil: November Novella Challenge
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Big Book, Big Evil. Monday, November 15, 2010. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A little of me is a lot. Maybe too much. View my complete profile. Novella on the Web. The Art of the Novella. Can the novella save literature? The Case For The Novella. Small, But Perfectly Formed. Briefly, the case for the novella. The Art In Being Ignored.
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Big Book, Big Evil: October 2008
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Big Book, Big Evil. Friday, October 31, 2008. The Man In The Picture: A Ghost Story by Susan Hill. A truly chilling tale, The Man In The Picture. Explores that notion and scares us with its implications of mortifying mimesis. Wednesday, October 29, 2008. Here's a toast to 'Tiffany's' on landmark novel's 50th birthday. One of the books on my Lit Flicks Challenge. Myra Overton has sailed here from England on the Queen Mary 2 to celebrate her 70th birthday. First stop: Tiffany and Co. on Fifth Avenue. While...
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Big Book, Big Evil: October 2009
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Big Book, Big Evil. Thursday, October 8, 2009. And I'm back after a spell . The Dog Barks' Anton Ego. Plugs this blog and reviews the novella Nobody Moves. By Denis Johnson. Though readers of BBBE may wonder whether or not the book is indeed a novella, we should be charitable towards Mr. Ego's first foray into novella criticism. I love Chandler and Hammett, from whom this book certainly descended, and I love British gangster flicks like Snatch. And Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Novella on the Web.
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Big Book, Big Evil: Aphorism
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Big Book, Big Evil. Friday, November 7, 2008. Life is too short to write long things. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A little of me is a lot. Maybe too much. View my complete profile. Novella on the Web. The Art of the Novella. Can the novella save literature? The Case For The Novella. Small, But Perfectly Formed. Briefly, the case for the novella. A Slack, Boneless, Affected Word. From A to X: A Story In Letters. Toni Morrison: a place out of no place. A Debut of Distinction.