Tag: book-review
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Teaching and Reading Angry Men
Next week, I’ve offered my Creative Nonfiction students three reading options, including a brilliant essay on experiencing an eclipse by nature/science writer Annie Dillard. It’s my preferred piece, of the week’s choices. One of the essays, David Foster Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster,” I really wrestled with including. I’m thinking out loud, here, about teaching the…
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Con Artists, Scam Artists, Escape Artists: My Zenias and Atwood’s The Robber Bride
“You might become a detective. You might become a con artist yourself. Or, a blend of the two: you might become a novelist.” Margaret Atwood on writing “The history of the world, my sweet Oh, Mr. Todd, ooh, Mr. Todd What does it tell? Is who gets eaten, and who gets to eat” Stephen Sondheim’s…
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Kathy Reichs’s Déja Dead: A Great Series Begins
This week has been a Faulknerian one for me: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” I’ve experienced multiple forms of déja vu all over again, to quote Yogi Berra. So it’s a perfect time to return to the 1997 first novel in Kathy Reichs’s celebrated series of crime novels featuring forensic anthropologist…
