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The opening lines of Mary McGrory’s review of Crow Field, Boylen’s first novel, in the New York Times captures what might attract some readers and repel others: “Anyone who things that a Dali canvas should be wired for sound or that the Ancient Mariner would be the perfect dinner gues...
We all know these things can only end in one of two ways: with a wistful farewell and a heart-breaking return to normal life; or with the last-minute scene in which the two lovers decide to rescue their love at the cost of all the resulting disruption to their normal lives. Either r...
The Lord of the Rings, together withThe Hobbit, is considered by many to be the start of thegenreknown as high fantasy, and these works have had an enormous influence on that genre as a whole. WhenThe Lord of the Ringswas published in paperback in theUnited Statesin 1965, it attained ...
The article reviews the book "The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel" by Lionel Trilling and edited by Geraldine Murphy.doi:10.1016/j.ins.2008.01.010Patterson, Leslielibrary journalMurphy, Geraldine. Introductio...
Every time we buy into that idea — that what’s going on with us has only to do with us — the movement stalls just a little bit more. It’s been fifty years since The Feminine Mystique… and twenty since the Family and Medical Leave Act. In order for things to change, we have ...
—Neil Shepard, author of The Book of Failures Part of our human beauty is that we live in a state of being unfinished. This is why memory is so powerful. Barbara Murphy's exquisite, beautiful poems are a series of finely etched portraits that enact how our moments accumulate into meaning...
but do some things differently for variety. Same with a book: keep enough of the genre features so that readers know what genre it is (maybe!) but change or add some things that keep the reader guessing. I like to mash-up my novels: two or more genre together. First of all, it’...
Are we seeing things through the eyes of the Miserable Child in the moment or through the eyes of the woman whose memories of her miserable childhood and knowledge of other facts provide context not available to the girl? We are one-third of our way into the book before it becomes clear ...
A Jingle-Jangle Song falls into that narrow sub-genre of the layover romance, where some of the magic resides in the relentless approach of the departure. We all know these things can only end in one of two ways: with a wistful farewell and a heart-breaking return to normal life; or ...