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Alan Bray
- Jul 20, 2023
- 4 min
You Have To Go Back To Go Forward
What we have been shown in William Trevor’s melancholy After Rain is that Harriet, the protagonist, has an epiphany while coming out of...
Alan Bray
- Jul 13, 2023
- 5 min
Baby The Rain Must Fall
This week, let’s continue looking at After Rain by William Trevor. During the first scene that shows the protagonist, Harriet, having...
Alan Bray
- Jul 6, 2023
- 5 min
After Rain
This week, after two abstract pieces about re-reading and time, let’s return to a writing example, William Trevor’s short story After...
Alan Bray
- Jun 29, 2023
- 5 min
Time Remembered
An excellent novel or short story is immersive. The “story-world” becomes the reader’s world; one feels as if one knows the characters,...
Alan Bray
- Jun 22, 2023
- 4 min
Re-Read
All reading is re-reading, according to some very savvy folks. This sounds like a paradox, my friends, after all, reading is different...
Alan Bray
- Jun 15, 2023
- 4 min
Surprise!
In my exploration of Gilead, the first book of four by Marilynne Robinson, I have attempted to look more at its writerly aspects vs. the...
Alan Bray
- Jun 1, 2023
- 5 min
The Prodigal Son
I think it’s fair to say that the central conflict/story in Gilead is within the relationship between Rev. Ames and Jack Boughton....
Alan Bray
- May 18, 2023
- 7 min
Please Read The Letter That I Wrote
What is the style of Gilead? I find it harder to analyze Gilead as a piece of fiction because it reads like a convincing memoir and/or...