Category: literature
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Are Wattpad reading lists private?
Are Wattpad reading lists private? No. The whole point of making a reading list on Wattpad (according to the company — I realize you’re asking because you have something else in mind), is to share the story. To show others what you liked or loved. To get folks to read something along with you or, even,…
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Alfred Bester and The Light Fantastic
In working through Robert Silverberg’s Science Fiction 101 (a compilation of essential Silver-era speculative fiction and analysis of how to write it), I came across The Light Fantastic by Alfred Bester in the bibliography. When I talk about silver era, I mean the post-Baron Edward John Moreton Draw Plunkett Lord Dunsany, post-H.G. Wells, pre-Nebula Award…
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Baron Edward John Moreton Draw Plunkett Lord Dunsany
There are sometimes where I wonder if my titles are good enoughand then I come across yet again the title The Book of Wonder by Baron Edward John Moreton Draw Plunkett Lord Dunsany. Then I realize no, nothe problem is not my titles, the problem is my byline. I don’t have a name like Winthrop…
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Fart Proudly by Benjamin Franklin
Editor’s Note: Fart Proudly or A Letter to a Royal Academy about farting or To the Royal Academy of Farting was a response by Benjamin Franklin to the academic societies of the time that were, if you’ll excuse me, up their own ass. We’re publishing Fart Proudly in our long tradition of Dead Guest Posts…
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The Doors of the Sea reflection
If you have ever lost someone you dearly loved, suffered some terrible malady, found yourself plagued with a phobia or anxiety over the abyss of your fate, or survived a natural disaster — please read The Doors of the Sea by David Bentley Hart. For the sake of your own hope and joy, please read…
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How can I road trip like Steinbeck Travels with Charley?
You know how in my reviews of LJ’s novel and FC’s novel both, I talked about how I feel like I owe people all the time? How I feel horrible when I don’t read a friend’s book? That goes double for books I’m gifted. That — I am delighted to say — was not the case for…
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Top 5 Books You Bought + Read in the Last 5 Years?
I have a simple question on the site today: What were the top five books you bought AND READ in the last 5 years. Leave yours in the comment thread here. — L
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Cormac McCarthy — Pater Noster in The Road
Cormac McCarthy has another theme that plays out in The Road more practically, one I hinted at at the end of the Inferno piece: is the Pater Noster truly something we all share or is it simply a phrase we all use for pater meus? Set aside for a minute that he’s going straight up…
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Stairway to Heaven — πίστει, ἀρετήν, γνῶσιν, ἐγκράτειαν, ὑπομονήν, τὴνεὐσέβειανφιλαδελφίαν, ἀγάπην
Wanted to talk a bit about the flowering of faith — the stairway to heaven — found in the additions of faith passage this morning. I’m sipping my tea at Think in the Financial District (have some errands to run at City Hall for a wedding I’m officiating for a fashion designer this fall). But…
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The Road — Cormac McCarthy’s Inferno
I have avoided reading McCarthy’s The Road since it came out in college predominately because, after reading All The Pretty Horses, I didn’t think I needed that kind of bleak post apocalypse in my mind. You remember what you want to forget and forget what you want to remember, after all. And frankly, knowing what…