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A Mixed Bag of Picture Books
With the bleak weather of January behind us, I thought I’d share some new books for children. The first two cover difficult and sensitive, but necessary, subjects especially for children. The Scar is the story of a child waking up … Continue reading
Filed under Children's Books
Wordless Books*
When it comes to reading, I’m a literalist. Reading is done by a reader who decodes a sequence of written symbols – a condition notably absent in other narrative media such as audiobooks or film. So what’s a literalist to … Continue reading
Filed under Book Review, Graphic Novels
Steampunk
I got a kick out of Jedediah Berry’s The Manual of Detection when I read it last fall, but months went by before I realized it belongs to a niche category of fiction called steampunk. In Berry’s book, Charles Unwin is reluctantly promoted to … Continue reading
Filed under Book Lists, Book Review, Fiction, General Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Plot is Dead? Fiction and Reality Hunger
Manifestos are meant to provoke, and David Shields doesn’t disappoint. I wrote about Reality Hunger in an earlier post that focused on his views of reality-bending “non-fiction” and the collage-inspired appropriation of work by other writers. I have to say, I’m not … Continue reading
Filed under Book Lists, Fiction, General Fiction
‘Hunger’ vs. ‘Gadget’: manifesto a manifesto
David Shields created quite a stir in recent months with his new book Reality Hunger: a manifesto. One major emphasis of his wide-ranging book is the practice of fact-bending in an age of fabricated memoirs, reality television, and personal myth-making via … Continue reading
Filed under Book Review, Nonfiction
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