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"Everything is Nice" by Jane Bowles 27 Aug 2013 | 11:10 am
"Everything is Nice" by Jane Bowles my prior post on Jane Bowles -contains background data As far as I can find, up until yesterday you could not read any of the work of Jane Bowles online. My main...
This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann (2003). The Reading Life Recommended Reading Order for His Novels 27 Aug 2013 | 05:13 am
I am now a bit sad to have read all six of Colum McCann's novels. I know it will be a few years until I have the pleasure of reading another one. This Side of Brightness is my least favorite of his...
"The Bed of Arrows" by Gopinath Mohanty 26 Aug 2013 | 03:33 am
an award winning novelist. "Gopinath Mohanty (Oriya: ଗୋପୀନାଥ ମହାନ୍ତି) (1914–1991), winner of the prestigious jnanpith award, eminent Oriya novelist of the mid-twentieth century is arguably the greate...
"The Flood" by Thakazhi Sivasankaran Pillai - തകഴി ശിവശങ്കര പിള്ള. Translated by Samuel Mathai 25 Aug 2013 | 02:20 pm
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (1912 to 1999) was a novelist and short story writer of Malayalam language. He is popularly known as Thakazhi, after his place of birth. Born in the village of Thakazhy, in...
Red Ribbons by Louise Phillips (2012, 405 pages) 25 Aug 2013 | 10:26 am
Normally I read several books at one time. Yesterday I took Louise Phillips' novel Red Ribbons with me to our community pool, thinking I will start it after my swim. I sat down briefly in a pool s...
"St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" by Karen Russell (2006) 24 Aug 2013 | 09:58 am
It is easy to see Flannery O'Connor, Gabriel Marquez or Haruki Murakami in the stories of Karen Russell. To me, she has built on these influences to create her own unique vision. Many of her storie...
"Ava Wrestles the Alligator" by Karen Russell (2006) 24 Aug 2013 | 07:29 am
I am now a fervent member of the Karen Russell fan club. Born in Miami, the stories in her first collection St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves are set mostly in the Florida Everglades, a vas...
"A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka (1922) 22 Aug 2013 | 07:35 am
On a very rainy day in Manila, up to a meter in three days in parts of the metro area, I decided I would reread a Kafka...
"The Vulture" by Manoj Kumar Goswami 1992 21 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
Goswami was born in 1962 to Kamal Ch Goswami, a college teacher and Satradhikar, and Lakhimi Goswami in a small town in Goshwami graduated from Nowgong College and later did his post graduate studie...
Grace Wells Q and Answer Session with the author of When God Has Been Called Away to Greater Things and other works 20 Aug 2013 | 03:37 am
Today I am honored to be able to share with my readers a Q and A Session with Grace Wells. Formerly an independent video and television producer in her native London, Grace Wells moved to Ireland in ...
