Saturday, June 14, 2025

That's about enough silence

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The period of silence that has reigned over this blog for the last three months and change coincided with the end of my former career. In ea...
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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...
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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 ...
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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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