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...
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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...
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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 ...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Unexpected jerk: "The Import" by Jai Chakrabarti (O.Henry Anthology)

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Early on in reading "The Import" by Jai Chakrabarti and nearly until the end, I thought I knew what kind of story I was reading. I...
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Monday, January 6, 2025

On being an unsuccessful writer two weeks before Trump takes office a second time

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"Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone ...
Saturday, January 4, 2025

The failure of the remedy: "The Home Visit" by Morris Collins

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In the 2020 O.Henry anthology, one of my favorite stories was "Lagomorph" by Alexander Macleod , which I wrote about here . It was...
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Thursday, January 2, 2025

Death by a thousand similes: "Orphan" by Brad Felver (O.Henry Anthology)

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I've had strange moments of recognition while analyzing stories for this blog before, but this one might have been the weirdest. As I wa...
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