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Alan Bray
- Sep 24, 2020
- 4 min
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
This week, a new book, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free written by Andrew Miller, published in 2019. I first read it earlier this year,...
Alan Bray
- Sep 17, 2020
- 4 min
What Is This Thing Called Love
An early review of “A Sport and a Pastime,” states that to live for sex alone is to be less than human. I don’t know. On the face of it,...
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- Sep 10, 2020
- 4 min
"Country" in a Chanel Suit
An oft-noted distinction within literary texts is whether they emphasize showing the characters in action over telling the reader about...
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- Sep 3, 2020
- 3 min
Imaginary Friends
Since writing last week’s post, I’ve been up around three a.m., worrying about what I wrote last time, worrying about the effect of my...
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- Aug 27, 2020
- 4 min
Time and "Sport"
This week, let’s look at how time is handled in “A Sport and a Pastime.” In his great book, “The Perpetual Orgy,” Mario Vargas Llosa...
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- Aug 20, 2020
- 3 min
Truthiness
Last wee k, we began to turn our keen minds toward James Salter’s “A Sport and a Pastime.” Let’s continue. By definition, a work of...
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- Aug 16, 2020
- 4 min
A Sport and A Pastime
This week, a new work of fiction, “A Sport and a Pastime” written by James Salter, published in 1967. I first learned of Salter belatedly...
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- Aug 6, 2020
- 4 min
He Knows If You've Been Bad or Good
Who is the narrator of “Starting Out in the Evening?” Is it Brian Morton? Is he “telling” the story, displaced across space and time to...