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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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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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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 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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Musings on Proust, Part 1

27 Mar 202027 Mar 2020
I have at last begun reading Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. While the coronavirus pandemic and its accompanying restrictions have given me more time to read, I actually…
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When Clichés Come to Life

20 Mar 202020 Mar 2020
Clichés are much derided in writing circles, and rightly so: they are a lazy way to express the character of a situation, and usually they have been heard so often…
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Recursions, Part 11: “Ulysses,” by James Joyce

10 Sep 201828 Sep 2018
This is the eleventh in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
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More Advice on Writing, Reprinted

2 Feb 20187 Feb 2018
Advice on writing by...er...me! Reprinted in "A Writer's Path," a literary community, originally printed here as "Clause and Effect": "How to Avoid Being Too Wordy in Your Writing" This is…
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Clause and Effect

11 Dec 201711 Dec 2017
Do you love subordinate clauses? I know I do. And how about assonance and alliteration, rhythm and rhyme? Let's face it: they can be as tasty as chocolate. But would…
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When Good Writing Goes Bad

23 Jun 201724 Jun 2017
Writing is one of the worst things you can do as a novelist, if you love it too much. This is especially so, I suspect, for those of us--and that…

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