Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel The Road is an intensely bleak vision of the apocalypse. The narrative follows two characters only ever referred to as”Man” and “boy” as…… Read more “Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the death of Dialogue Tags”
Tag: book review
Arrival/Story of Your Life: Languages of film and Prose
[This isn’t the first time I’ve written on Arrival, and I doubt it will be the last. you can check out my original view of the film here…… Read more “Arrival/Story of Your Life: Languages of film and Prose”
The Simplica Girl Diaries in review
“Limitations so frustrating” (Saunders 126) writes the narrator of George Saunders’ The Semplica Girl Diaries. But the self-imposed limitations and restrictions Saunders impose on his writing make…… Read more “The Simplica Girl Diaries in review”
A Children’s Crusade in Reverse (Slaughterhouse Five in review)
[feeling a little unstuck? that might be because I’ve written on this novel before: God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut. In some circles, I’m known for talking about Vonnegut…… Read more “A Children’s Crusade in Reverse (Slaughterhouse Five in review)”
Ray Bradbury: There Will Come Soft Rains in Review
Few books have been as formative and influential for me as Ray Bradbury’s 1950 short story fix-up novel The Martian Chronicles. While the book as a whole…… Read more “Ray Bradbury: There Will Come Soft Rains in Review”
Letters to a Young Poet in review
The ten letters of Rainer Maria Rilke in correspondence with Franz Xavier Kappus that makeup Letters to a Young Poet offer little in the way of…… Read more “Letters to a Young Poet in review”
Theory of Adaptation in Review
Note: Over the next two months I will be writing a series of very short reviews of both critical work and fiction for a special project. As…… Read more “Theory of Adaptation in Review”
