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Nov 25, 20214 min
Rage Against the Machine
Harry Haller’s purported journal begins with a description of his day—written in past tense, something we must return to later. He is, to...
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Nov 18, 20214 min
Get Your Motor Running
This week, a new book, Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf, first published in 1927. I am using a Picador edition published in 1963 which...
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Nov 11, 20215 min
Walkin' the Dog
An important idea is that reading a story changes the reader, that being with a story—and we should say, the implied author of the...
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Nov 4, 20213 min
Time And The Hour Runs Through The Darkest Day
Last time, we were musing about what connects the sections in Casting Shadows, that there seems to be a pattern of the narrator...
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Oct 28, 20215 min
Casting Shadows
This week, a new story, Jhumpa Lahiri’s Casting Shadows, a short story or novel excerpt, published in the February 15th 2021 issue of The...
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Oct 21, 20214 min
Search For The Author - Implicated
This week, as we wrap up our reading of Three Horses, a little background on the concept of the implied author. (Whiny voice: Are you...
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Oct 14, 20214 min
You Can Count On Me
The narration in Three Horses is written in first person. After all, the very first word is “I,” as in “I only read used books.” Is this...
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Oct 7, 20215 min
Selim
Besides Laila, the other key character in Three Horses is Selim, a man whom the narrator befriends and helps, acts of kindness which have...
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Sep 30, 20214 min
Ms. Sandman, Play Me A Tune
Usually, in this blog, I don’t want to merely describe the plots of the books I discuss in the manner of a book review. My purpose is to...
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Sep 23, 20215 min
Steam Powered Love
As mentioned last week, Erri De Luca, the author of Three Horses, states he can only write about things he’s experienced, placing himself...
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Sep 16, 20214 min
Three Horses
This week, a new novel, Erri De Luca’s 1999 book Three Horses, translated from Italian to English by Michael Moore in 2005. I first read...
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Sep 9, 20214 min
I'm Hiding
The Sea is the story of a troubled man who, after great personal tragedy, returns obsessively to the site of an earlier tragedy and...