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The Last Warner Woman
The Last Warner Woman is a novel by Kei Miller, © Coffee House Press 2012
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Tagged apocalypse, book review, contemporary fiction, fiction, frames, gender, jamaica, knowledge, language, London, nihilism, novel, parables, readers, reading, reading process, religion, supernatural, warning, writers, writing, writing process
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Open City
Open City is a novel by Teju Cole, © Random House 2011 You hadn’t heard about Cormac’s Olivetti? Check it out.
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Tagged book review, classics, contemporary, contemporary fiction, debut, emotional weight, fiction, lens, lonely, narrator, new york city, novel, perspective, postmodernism, reading, trust, urban space
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The Flame Alphabet
The Flame Alphabet is a novel by Ben Marcus, © Knopf 2012 Language/GPS Article Thing: Understanding Place & Space in a Digital Babel
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Tagged apocalypse, apocalypse fiction, awkward, book review, children, contemporary fiction, first person, knowledge, language, linguisitics, novel, perspective, postmodernism, reading
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The Tragedy of Arthur
The Tragedy of Arthur is a novel by Arthur Phillips, © Random House 2011 If I piqued your interest on Bloom’s ideas, here’s a link to the Google Books result for Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human.
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Tagged book review, classic literature, classics, contemporary fiction, deception, fiction, forgery, historical fiction, inventor, knowledge, play, readers, reading, reading process, shakespeare, theater, tragedy, writing
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Reading Ulysses
Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce. First published in Paris in 1922, it’s now in the public domain but I read the Wordsworth Classics edition published in 2010. I should note that this video is something a little different … Continue reading
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