December 2008
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“Don Quixote’s misreadings—his determination to read fiction as...”
– James Wood, The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel
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“Miguel de Unamuno, the relentlessly idealizing Spanish philosopher, considered...”
– James Wood, The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel
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“The imprecision of their goals means that these artists rarely feel they have...”
– David Galenson writes in “Old Masters and Young Geniuses”
The Magic Pill, or Self-Destruction →
Everything runs away, beginning with who you are, and at some indefinable point you come to half understand that the ruthless antagonist is yourself. Philip Roth, qtd. James Wood A…
Grotesque Comedy →
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Dead Souls: Conclusion →
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Gogol’s Dead Souls: Intro →
Many will argue that the history of the Russian novel begins with Nikolay Gogol’s Dead Souls. What is amazing about this novel is host of vivid characters down to the last grotesque detail. A…
The 11th Hour - Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio -... →
“We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an...”
– Sam Keen
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“… given the nature of their work, which force them to sit bent over day...”
– W.G. Sebald
“The artist is like the silkworm, suggests Sebald, killing himself as he produces...”
– James Wood
“A writer like D.H. Lawrence, who bullies his reader, but who also bullies...”
– James Wood
“The author who can make a world for a reader—make him believe that the...”
– Laura Miller
“They have to get back to the simple act of doing something—with any...”
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
“Encased in talent like a uniform,
The rank of every poet is well known;
They...”
– “The Novelist” W. H. Auden
“Youth has no age.”
– Pablo Picasso Quotes
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“The aesthetic wonder is that this enormity (DQ as a “veritable encylopedia...”
– The Book of Innocence: Harold Bloom
Online Novels, Literary Blogs, and More →
Online Fiction is a medium that has been growing since 1994 with Douglas Anthony Cooper’s Delirium. In 1996, Geoff Ryman came out with his interactive novel 266. With the rise of blogging…
The Paradox of Dreams →
The Paradox of Dreams →
There is a puzzling quotation that opens Herman Hesse’s early novel, Demian: I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings of my true self. Why was that so very difficult? …
Another Senora? →