Starting Any Day Now: "That Time Faulkner Rejected the Aristotelian Unities of the Poetics: If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem"--A non-Yoknapatawpha novel that often lands among his top five on critical lists, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem is two separate stories with different characters and no unity of place or time told in alternating parts. Yet … Continue reading Preview of Coming Attractions
Two by German writer W.G. Sebald , The Emigrants and Austerlitz, in connection with another project. I'm taking advantage of the newly released Sebald biography, Speak, Silence (Is that a great title or what?) by Carole Angier to try and make some determination of where Sebald's work, called a "new genre" between fiction and nonfiction, … Continue reading Currently Reading 11/17/2021
To keep up with the world of books and publishing, like Life and Literature's Facebook page. An example of my Facebook content from this week: Arts & Culture takes a close look at the Booker Prize shortlist. From NPR: Penguin Random House stopped from purchasing Simon & Schuster. Merger would turn Big 5 into Big … Continue reading Life & Lit Facebook Page
I sometimes prefer the company of women. Actually I often prefer the company of women. So it happens that all my current reading is from female writers. Jane Alison is my new favorite writer. I discovered Meander, Spiral, Explode two years ago right before it was published while researching new formalist literary criticism. After publishing … Continue reading Currently Reading 8/9/21
"City Skyline", my composite photograph of the Jackson, Mississippi skyline, is on display at the Arts Center in downtown Jackson. Submitted in the Sky Through My Eye photo contest, "City Skyline" hangs alongside other entrants through the end of February. Composed of three sections, "City Skyline" contains elements from buildings impossible to see from a … Continue reading “City Skyline” at the Arts Center
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