It was Ernest Hemingway who first won my heart to fiction. Before him I had loved The Catcher in the Rye, but that was purely for its content. I had no appreciation for Salinger’s craft. I was only captivated the social criticism that seemed to have stolen all of my best insights [...]
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Why I love Raymond Carver
Posted in books, fiction on January 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Alice Munro
Posted in fiction on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the most recent edition of Harper’s (kindly given to me by Ryan’s fiancee, Anna, for my car ride home to Portland from Lodi, CA), there is a short story by Alice Munro entitled “Fiction.” It’s a fantastic story, Munro is from Oregon, and you can get a printable pdf online here. That’s [...]
Speaking of Flannery
Posted in Luther, america, fiction, grace, herman melville on April 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Arthur McGill, in a phenomenal book entitled Life and Death: An American Theology, makes the argument that the ethos of America at large is marked by a fatal need to extinguish all visible signs of death from its existence. This, for him, is motivated by an ultimate fear of death, wherein one believes it [...]
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