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Category Archives: Fiction
John Ehle’s The Winter People
Print PDF I was recently re-reading John Ehle’s The Winter People, one of the novels I regrettably had to omit from my “Appalachian Literature: Idea and Identity” syllabus. It just missed the cut, and my memories of it (from about … Continue reading
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Tagged Appalachian literature, John Ehle, Kurt Russell, The Winter People
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Alyson Hagy’s BOLETO
Print PDF“She had a good head. There was nothing goat nosed or weak chinned about her. Her jaw was a fine crescent that transitioned into a neat, clean mouth. Her throat arced gracefully away from her jaw into a long, … Continue reading
R. T. Smith on SHERBURNE
Print PDFChloe Bellomy interviews Washington and Lee Writer-in-Residence R. T. Smith on his new collection of stories, Sherburne. http://vimeo.com/39848442 R. T. Smith reading from Sherburne: http://youtu.be/Q0VSJRNND6g
Posted in Fiction, Interviews, Uncategorized
Tagged Crime Fiction, R.T. Smith, Sherburne, Washington and Lee
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Print or iPad?
Print PDF With graduation on the horizon, a number of questions are burning and a subsequent number of decisions will soon need to be made. One such decision I have already begun to probe is in what form will an … Continue reading
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April Fools
Print PDFIn light of yesterday, I thought a post honoring some of my favorite tricksters in literature couldn’t be more appropriate. At an early age, my parents would rock me to sleep with tales of Brer Rabbit and Puss and … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Fiction
Tagged Brer Rabbit, Huck Finn, Le Mort D'Arthur, Mark Twain, Puss and Boots, Shakespeare, Sir Tomas Malory, Twain
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Putting Recreational Reading to “The Flannery O’Connor Test”
Print PDF Flannery O’Connor once said that she stops reading a book the moment that she “would not feel a sense of loss if she were to quit reading.” Professor Smith has mentioned that he regularly reads a twenty to … Continue reading
Movies and Literature
Print PDFWe have recently been talking quite a bit about Young Adult Fiction, both in our blogs and in class. In her earlier blog “When Young Adult is too Adult” Lauren Starnes questioned whether the Hunger Games was an appropriate … Continue reading
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Tagged Cato, Hunger Game, Jennifer Lawrence, Katniss, Katniss Everdeen, Peeta
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Illustration and literature: Can they mix?
Print PDF We are studying the genre of memoir in my four-person capstone class currently. The course began with Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home—the title ironically encapsulates the story of a dysfunctional family and its funeral home business. The graphic novel … Continue reading
Five Books that Will Change the Way You Read
Print PDFThere are few things more fulfilling than reading a truly great novel. Often these rich and complex works do not make for the easiest reading, but the rewards make it a worthwhile endeavor. In these works, everything from the … Continue reading
Pride and Pigs
Print PDFWhen I was in high school, my junior English teacher assigned us a project: to write the story of the three little pigs in the style of our favorite author. We were not allowed to write the author’s name … Continue reading
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Tagged Daphne Du Maurier, Dornford Yates, Jane Austen, Martin Cruz-Smith
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