Category Archives: Fiction

Donna Tartt — The Goldfinch Unchained

Posted on January 10, 2015 by

The Goldfinch is a very small oil painting of a finch chained to its perch that is on display in a museum in the Netherlands. It was painted 300 years ago by a student of Rembrandt and is very famous. … Continue reading →

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Colombian Storyteller, García Márquez, is dead at 87

Posted on April 17, 2014 by

Gabriel García Márquez is dead at 87; he is survived by his stories, and his many readers. In his autobiography García Márquez told this story of a surprise visit by his mother: My mother asked me to go with her … Continue reading →

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Zero To Hero — Donna Tartt spins a murder tale in Vermont

Posted on January 3, 2014 by

Murdered—Bunny is dead. He’s lying there at the foot of Mt. Cataract buried by a fateful April snow: “He’d been dead for ten days before they found him, you know. It was one of the biggest manhunts in Vermont history— … Continue reading →

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Jonah — Biblical Story Made Modern

Posted on December 17, 2013 by

Today, the gleaming towers of Las Vegas have eclipsed the great American desert of southern Nevada. Author Joshua Max Feldman remembers an older, more primitive time in the epigraph of his novel The Book of Jonah: —and Jonah saw in … Continue reading →

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Doris Lessing: Reluctant Feminist

Posted on November 19, 2013 by

Posted on the web: “Goodbye to Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook wouldn’t be the same without you.” The posting by the Golden Notebook bookstore in Woodstock included a link to the obituary published by the N.Y. Times: Doris Lessing, the … Continue reading →

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Rowling– A Celebrity Falls In London’s Mayfair

Posted on September 9, 2013 by

It was a dark and stormy night (for it is in London that our scene lies)— the supermodel Lula Landry lies dead on the sidewalk below the balcony of her luxurious Mayfair apartment: Photographers stood massed behind barriers patrolled by … Continue reading →

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Elmore Leonard– The Old West of Lawmen and Outlaws

Posted on August 20, 2013 by

Elmore Leonard wrote about the old west–Arizona Territory, 1860. His early short stories were about the Apache, cowboys, sheriff deputies, stage-coach drivers and, of course, gun-toting outlaws. In 1953, Leonard was working as an advertising copywriter when he published “Three-Ten … Continue reading →

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