Creating a Character, 2: Bernard Malamud and J.G. Ballard
The question remains: How does a skilled writer establish a good character in so few pages? And how does it relate to their overall style and composition?
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How Should One Love?: A Review of Existentialism and Romantic Love
Skye Cleary’s book Existentialism and Romantic Love is a philosophical piece aiming to resolve the problematic nature of defining and Continue reading
Hemingway and Modernity’s Necropolis
The works of Ernest Hemingway have always aimed to elucidate the looming presence of death as it follows his characters Continue reading
Simulacrum in Literature: Baudrillard and Barthelme
Simulacrum, like many terms surrounding postmodernism, has been defined in a number of ways. Perhaps the simplest definition of the Continue reading
Time-Tearing with Philip K. Dick
I like Philip K. Dick. His ideas are intriguing and his writing is more than passable by my standards. I Continue reading
Creating a Character: Carver and Cheever
The short story, the ever neglected cousin of the novel, requires many of the same techniques used in the composition Continue reading
Philip K. Dick’s Martian Time-Slip and Pragmatic Knowledge
Philip K. Dick is, without a doubt, one of the most interesting writers of the 20th century. His prose is Continue reading
Borges and Murakami: Philosophy in Fiction
Borges and Murakami Philosophy in fiction has had a long and storied history, from the mythology of Ancient Greece to Continue reading
