Thoughts and Writings
This was originally posted as a response on Reddit to someone who felt that the novel had nothing to say. This response assumes that you have read the novel. _________________________________________________________ I don’t think the novel is ultimately…
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I put together a very short slide presentation. Internet Fast Lane Explained from Kevin Bondelli
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This is the fifth post in the Reading Women Writers series. I finished Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings weeks ago, yet I found it difficult to write about until now for a couple of reasons. First, it…
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The hottest news item of the last 24 hours is the leak of a memo revealing a top secret NSA program called PRISM that allegedly gave the National Security Agency direct access to the systems of…
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This is the fourth post in the Reading Women Writers series. Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune tells the story of Eliza Sommers, an orphan that was left at the doorstep of an English brother and sister…
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Last week I wrote about Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees as the second novel in my Reading Women Writers series. I wanted to briefly revisit it because of the recent news from Guatemala: On Monday, a…
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This is the third post in the Reading Women Writers series. From now on the posts will be somewhat less formal and won’t be using MLA citations. Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions is set in 1960-70s Rhodesia…
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This is the second post in the Reading Women Writers series. In The Golden Notebook, Anne writes that “One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it…
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