Year: 2004

The lull in the production of English novels between 1824 and 1836 marks the birth of modernity. Austen and Scott, whose novels are set in the countryside, give...

I finally got around to checking out Chekhov’s Mistress (the blog) and discovered that we had covered some of the same ground. In fact I felt like he was ...

Well kids, another literary list comes along to reveal just how out of touch and un-hip I am. Via Bookslut comes this list of 50 Essential Reads by Contemporary...

The Boston Globe has some additional NEA reaction, including a professor from Trinity in San Antonio once arrested in Haiti for having a Graham Greene novel in ...

Well, it is apparently Kevin Wignall Week here at Collected Miscellany (see here and here). Having seen his name pop up around various sites and having heard go...

I have often thought of trying my hand at fiction writing but never had the guts to really put pen to paper as they say. I often have weird inspirations about c...