characters behaving badly
I know I’d rather spend time with Becky Sharp than with that drip Amelia Sedley. — Juliet Annan Juliet Annan offers this post on The Penguin Blog – Little Dorrit deserves a smack – on readers who...
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White Truffles in Winter, by N.M. Kelby
There is a moment during a perfectly paced, perfectly executed meal when everything transcends. The diners look up from their plates —wine-drugged, conversation-lulled—and gaze at each other in...
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[Reviewlet] In Caddis Wood, by Mary François Rockcastle
While reading In Caddis Wood (Graywolf), Mary François Rockcastle’s second novel, I was immediately struck by its resemblance to Wallace Stegner’s masterful Crossing to Safety. Both books examine...
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[Contrasts & Charms] The Allure of the Sequel
I am impatiently waiting for so many sequels! First, I must have another installment of Megan Whalen Turner’s The Queen’s Thief series. My raving about these books has not convinced many friends to...
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Fiction’s Wounding Event: Where Character And Incident Meet
At first, students in my course on fairy tales are not happy customers. The stories are so dark. They are violent, uncannily erotic. They exist in a world where metaphor and reality swallow the reader...
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