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Musings on Proust, Part 9

12 Feb 2021
Proust Goes for a Laugh Proust had a bit of fun at his own expense in a comic bit that he put in is own words for a change, in…
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Mini-Review: “The Lying Life of Adults”

27 Jan 2021
The Lying Life of Adults, by Elena Ferrante In short: I loved it! An intense, passionate, honest, vulgar, and sublime poetic telling of the young girl's coming-of-age in crime-ridden Naples.…
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Mini-Review: “Lithium for Medea”

20 Jan 2021
Lithium for Medea, by Kate Braverman An odd, passionate, and almost-perfect novel, written in a gush of negative ecstasy that echoes Allen Ginsberg's best work in but prose form, probably…
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Musings on Proust, Part 8

27 Dec 202027 Dec 2020
If only Proust were not so parsimonious with his comic writing! Just laughed through a short section in the salon scene of "Le coté de Guermantes," book II, with Mme.…
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Book Publishing Contract!

9 Dec 2020
Well, hallelujah! This morning I signed a contract with Basil E. Bacorn Publishing for the production of a children's novel, due out around Midsummer of this year. The story is…
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Musings on Proust, Part Seven

12 Sep 2020
Hmm...the next book I called in to my library has not arrived yet, leaving me with only Proust for a day or two. While I have to admit that he…
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Novella Time

20 May 2020
I have begun writing a novella, that odd in-between genre, much too long to be a short story, but rarely long enough to be called a novel in most literary…
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Musings on Proust, part 5

13 May 202013 May 2020
I have at last finished with part 2 of tome 2, and I must give Proust some credit: the sentence structure is less tormented now, though the protagonist is more…
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Musings on Proust, Part 4

15 Apr 202016 Apr 2020
Having finished not with A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs as I had at first vainly imagined, but only Part 1 of Tome 2, I prepare to plunge into…
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Musings on Proust, part 3

7 Apr 2020
I am halfway through A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, and here Proust meanders onward, ever onward...except when he goes left, or right, or back for a while, or…

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