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- Aug 5, 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...
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- Jul 29, 2020
- 4 min
What Do You Do When I Can't See You?
What’s missing in “Starting Out in the Evening” is as significant as what’s present. A lot is missing; the novel consists of...
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- Jul 22, 2020
- 4 min
A Manifesto, then Casey
All right, sit down everybody. I’m going to continue talking about “Starting Out in the Evening,” but first I have a few (other) thoughts...
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- Jul 15, 2020
- 4 min
Like a Letter from a Friend
One of the joys of “Starting Out in the Evening” is the lovely interconnectedness of it—the integrity, if you will, of a story that...
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- Jul 8, 2020
- 3 min
Starting Out in the Evening
This week, a new book—Brian Morrison’s 1998 novel “Starting Out in the Evening.” I saw the film version of this novel first, in...