Kendall
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Review: Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
March 12, 2010 - 9:35 am
Tags: age of innocence, Book, edith wharton, literature, new york, review
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The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton, is a book that modern readers will perhaps find hard to appreciate. Not so much from the writing itself — Wharton is one of the masters of literary craft and this book won her the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1921. Rather, modern readers, raised in an age [...]
Publication of a short story!
March 11, 2010 - 9:15 pm
Tags: author, dead mule, publication, short story, writing
Posted in Living, Virginia, writing | No comments
I just got word that a short story I wrote got accepted to The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature Journal.
I’ll let everyone know when it comes out!
Woop!
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Review: All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
February 28, 2010 - 11:56 am
Tags: all the pretty horses, Book, cormac mccarthy, john grady cole, review
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All the Pretty Horses is the second book by Cormac McCarthy book I’ve read, and this author’s prose is like poetry. He really has a way with describing scenes of the countryside, the love of horses, and the tragedy of a man’s destiny within a blind, or indifferent, universe.
The story focuses on the young [...]
Review: Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
February 26, 2010 - 1:31 pm
Tags: blood meridian, Book, cormac mccarthy, review
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy, is worth your time, but is probably not a book for the faint of heart. I really enjoyed the story, though I have to feel a little guilty for saying so. The scenery itself is like another of the characters, and all characters [...]
Review: The Green Man, by Kingsley Amis
February 19, 2010 - 2:27 pm
Tags: Book, english, green man, kingsley amis, review
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I really enjoyed The Green Man, by Kingsley Amis. It starts out as some sort of English comedy — a guy who owns a pub has a drinking problem, has health problems, has a marriage problem, has a mistress problem, and has children problems, then suddenly starts seeing ghosts.
Of course no one believes him, since [...]
Review: The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
February 17, 2010 - 9:37 pm
Tags: haunted house, horror, review, shirley jackson, supernatural thriller
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The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson, is one of the classics of the horror genre. Whereas some writers rely on explicit blood, gore, and violence to get across their message, Shirley Jackson evokes horror and supernatural suspense exactly by not being explicit. She creates terrifying moods and images without being hamhanded about the [...]
a possum who thinks he is a cat
February 2, 2010 - 10:40 am
Tags: cat, eating, food, possum, video, Virginia
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Something made me suspicious, so I looked outside to see what the cats were up to, and found that the critter eating all the cat food was not a cat!
Here’s a short video of what I saw on the porch:
Ya, that’s a hungry possum. What I think is funny is the audio of him eating [...]
Trip to Daniel Island, South Carolina
January 10, 2010 - 9:45 pm
Tags: best cities, charleston, daniel island, shopping, smartest, south carolina, Technology, Travel, vacation
Posted in Culture, Living, Travel | No comments
Over New Years, we had the opportunity to visit friends on Daniel Island, South Carolina. The island itself, winner of lots of livability awards, is great—water views, temperate climate, palm trees, and close proximity to Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston itself has won best-places-to-live, world’s smartest cities, Top 10 Worldwide Cities to Visit in 2010, [...]
At the End of the 00s, A Personal Lookback
December 31, 2009 - 8:23 am
Tags: amsterdam, career, decade, education, hawaii, kendall, new york, personal, review, Travel, year
Posted in Living | 1 comment
Traditionally, the end of the year is a time for reflection about what you’ve accomplished during the past year and a chance to set goals for the coming year. I don’t often post end-of-year reviews, but since today, December 31, 2009, marks the end of not only the year 2009, but also the end of [...]
