Sunday, March 2, 2025

A time to be silent

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Whatever it is I've been doing, I don't think it's working.  I've exhausted myself most of my life to try to understand the ...
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Thursday, February 20, 2025

"Junior" by Katherine D. Stutzman (O.Henry Anthology)

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Once upon a time, when the influence of the American New Critics was at its height, it was considered de rigeur  that a work of literary art...
Monday, February 17, 2025

Obviously, my O'Henry read-through is delayed

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This is just a note to say that I realize it's been a while since I last posted. I do intend to try to get back to the short story antho...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

This story might as well be written by AI: "Hiding Spot" by Caroline Kim (O.Henry Anthology)

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"Hiding Spot" is a boilerplate, familiar-to-the-point-of-tedium, well-worn story of Korean immigrants. If you were to create a ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Solidarity is a pipe dream: "Serranos" by Francisco Gonzalez (O.Henry Anthology 2024)

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I've fallen behind on my analysis of stories from the 2024 Best Short Stories collection, a.k.a. the O.Henry Prize Winners anthology. It...
Monday, January 20, 2025

The best lines from the Lord of the Rings movies that aren't in the books

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Many years ago now, I wrote about the ten things from the Lord of the Rings movies that drove me the craziest . They mostly involved change...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Choose your own analysis: Is "Didi" by Amber Caron dull or terribly clever?

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Depending on how you read "Didi" by Amber Caron, it might be a dull feminist morality tale that leans too heavily on the cultural ...