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Ambulance races by. Midnight_Hainesville. Alone in my room. Falling down. Confused. Disjointed.out-of-focus. Forgetting faces. Forgetting periods, forging distractions and falling […]
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Retro Recap – March
This month of March will have been a seemingly quiet one to many casual listeners and fans of bandcamp electronic
The Alteration (1976) by Kingsley Amis
Alternate history allows a reader not only to contemplate the past. It also makes one think upon the current culture
God Emperor Of Dune by Frank Herbert (1981)
Dune is a landmark title in the science fiction world, as omnipresent and mystical as its own characters and world.
Literature, Literature Reviews
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (1979)
With the successful release of the film Hidden Figures and being that it’s the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 1 launch disaster, I figured that I’d start 2017 with a switch to non-fiction.
Literature, Literature Reviews
The Samurai by Shusaku Endo (1980, tr. 1982)
Two months back when I reviewed Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase, I mentioned that the 1970 seppuku of the internationally-acclaimed Yukio Mishima overshadowed the Japanese literary world for some years afterward.
Djinn by Alain Robbe-Grillet (1981, Tr. 1982)
As a kind of self-contained as well as finite wholeness, Djinn, authored by the godfather of the Nouveau Roman himself
Literature
Blood Meridian (or the Evening Redness in the West) by Cormac McCarthy (1985)
The wild west has caught the imagination of many, American and non-American alike, for years.
Literature
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami (1982, tr. 1989)
On November 25th 1970 the most prominent Japanese novelist, Yukio Mishima, committed ritual seppuku after staging a theatrical protest/coup in favor of restoring the imperial system to power. That event sent shockwaves throughout Japan and the Western literary world
Literature
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980, tr. 1983)
This past February, one of the most brilliant contemporaries in the literary world passed away. His name was Umberto Eco, who was an Italian professor in semiotics. In 1980, he won surprising acclaim in the Italian publishing world for The Name of the Rose, and later, in 1983, he had similar international success with the English translation.
Literature
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis (1986)
As both a reader and a writer, I enjoy diverse genres of literature. I however would have to choose mid-20th century British comic fiction as one of my favorites.
Literature
Bright Lights, Big City (1984) by Jay McInerney
What are some of the things that come to your mind when you think of the 1980s? Manhattan. Cocaine. Partying. Fashion. Yuppie culture.