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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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Musings on Proust, Part 2

31 Mar 202031 Mar 2020
Finished Du coté de chez Swann last night.... Okay, I'm beginning to wonder whether I feel about Proust (so far, having read one volume out of seven, each of which…
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Mini-Review: “River,” by Esther Kinsky

17 Feb 202018 Feb 2020
River, by Esther Kinsky Esther Kinsky's recent book, River, is not easy to categorize. Is it: A novel? A collection of linked short stories? An extended prose poem? A series…
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Mini-Review: Yiyun Li’s “Where Reasons End”

18 Dec 2019
I just finished Yiyun Li's Where Reasons End, which might be called a conceptual novel, an experimental novel, perhaps an experimental memoir, or perhaps just a heart-wrenching and intellectually-challenging good…
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Book Review: “Ducks, Newburyport,” by Lucy Ellman

30 Nov 2019
Ducks, Newburyport is a new novel both celebrated and feared for its audacity: a single stream-of-consciousness sentence nearly one thousand pages long, paused but not interrupted by concisely-written chapters of a…
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The “American” Novel

8 Sep 20199 Sep 2019
I realized recently that I have been reading a great many novels by British writers lately. This includes, of course, novels by immigrants to the UK, or by indigenous British…
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Book Review: “Life and Fate,” by Vasily Grossman

7 Jul 20198 Sep 2019
Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman. It is no surprise that a book with perhaps the most Russian title ever--Life and Fate--weighs in at 871 pages in its English translation.…
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Mini Review: “Lawn Boy,” by Jonathan Evison

13 Jun 201915 Jun 2019
Lawn Boy, by Jonathan Evison If you threw J. D. Salinger, Oscar Wilde, Jack London, and maybe Gerald Durrell into a blender, added a spoonful of Warhol and a dollop…

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