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Wednesday 2 October 2024
Bite-Sized Nightmares: Quick Scary Reads for the Halloween Season!
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During the spooktacular month of October, I’ve set out on a mission to devour as many spine-chilling horror short stories as I can get my h...
Monday 20 May 2024
Dr. A.H. Moynihan by Lucia Berlin
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Mirror! Mirror! Blood...so much blood. The grotesque and absurd collide in this darkly humorous coming-of-age tale where the vivid descrip...
Sunday 19 May 2024
My Jockey by Lucia Berlin
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Secretariat, at the Kentucky Derby circa 1973. I have mentioned Lucia Berlin's talent for minimalism before in other reviews, but "...
Saturday 18 May 2024
The Phantom of the Opera's Friend by Donald Barthelme
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Sing once again with me, our strange duet / My power over you grows stronger yet. In the literary realm of Donald Barthelme's short stor...
The President by Donald Barthelme
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Maestro! "The President" by Donald Barthelme is another bizarre and experimental political satire that is wildly uneven. The myst...
The Indian Uprising by Donald Barthelme
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"We defended the city as best we could." If you want a prime example of Donald Barthelme's postmodernist and experimental st...
The Educational Experience by Donald Barthelme
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God help us, we're in the hands of engineers. The first person narrator is a teacher and he has taken his students on a museum school tr...
Views of My Father Weeping by Donald Barthelme
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Neeeeigh. Here is another prime example of Donald Barthelme's post-modern literary aesthetic where narrative form and structure is more ...
Friday 17 May 2024
A Manual For Cleaning Woman by Lucia Berlin
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Apparently, cleaning women do steal. "A Manual For Cleaning Woman" is quintessential Lucia Berlin: fast-paced, concise prose, w...
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