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Tag Archives: supernatural
Flight Behavior
Flight Behavior is a novel by Barbara Kingsolver, © HarperCollins 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged adaptation, adultery, American south, book review, Christianity, contemporary fiction, culture, emotional weight, feminism, fiction, global warming, knowledge, loneliness, love, marriage, miracle, novel, perspective, power, reality, religion, southern culture, supernatural, women, women's issues
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Review Review
This is a review of reviews. Happy New Year.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged apocalypse, awkward, death, frames, knowledge, language, loneliness, power, supernatural, violence
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Bewilderment
Bewilderment is a collection of poems and translations by David Ferry, © University of Chicago Press 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, classics, confusion, contemporary poetry, death, form, grammar, knowledge, loneliness, loss, love, mythology, national book award, pain, poetry, potential, reading process, supernatural, translations
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The Fifty Year Sword
The Fifty Year Sword is a novel or a graphic novel or a prose poem. It is fiction. It is written by Mark Z. Danielewski, © Pantheon Books 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, contemporary fiction, contemporary poetry, East Texas, epic poem, epic poety, Ergodic literature, fiction, fragments, frames, ghost story, ghosts, graphic novel, imagery, loneliness, novel, poetry, postmodernism, prose poem, prose poetry, supernatural, visual poetry, voice
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Memoirs of a Porcupine
Memoirs of a Porcupine is a novel by Alain Mabanckou and translated by Helen Stevenson, © Soft Skull Press 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged African literature, animals, book review, contemporary fiction, emotional weight, fiction, French African literature, guilt, novel, oral storytelling, pace, perspective, porcupine, responsibility, serial killer, supernatural, superstition, transcript, translation, violence
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1Q84
1Q84 is a novel by Haruki Murakami and translated by Jay Rubin (Books 1 & 2) and Philip Gabriel (Book 3), © Knopf 2011
The Hall of the Singing Caryatids
The Hall of the Singing Caryatids is a novel by Victor Pelevin and translated by Andrew Bromfield, © New Directions 2011 Not all the theorists mentioned in this book are real, but Wittgenstein is.
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, consumption, contemporary fiction, fantasy, female body, female perspective, fiction, language theory, novel, post-Soviet literature, postmodernism, power, Russia, Russian, Russian literature, science fiction, semiotics, supernatural, surreal, technology, translation
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The Wilding
The Wilding is a novel by Benjamin Percy, © Graywolf Press 2010
Posted in Book Review
Tagged Benjamin Percy, book review, books, coming of age, contemporary fiction, death, fantasy, fiction, grizzly bears, horror fiction, Little Red Riding Hood, masculinity, nature, novel, Ochoco Mountains, Oregon, power, power dynamics, supernatural, suspense fiction, violence, wild, wildness, woods
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Murder Ballad
Murder Ballad is a collection of poems by Jane Springer, © Alice James Books 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, contemporary poetry, Cormac McCarthy, death, fantasy, female perspective, Flannery O'Connor, ghosts, history, murder ballad, music, poetry, rape, recommendation, romanticism, southern Gothic, supernatural, the South, violence, William Faulkner, women
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