......a story that should interest everyone, for it's on our horizon already.
Rescuing Fiction | Charles Dickens and Nicholas Nickleby and the book that was to come
This week I finished the astonishing novel Nicholas Nickleby.
Rescuing Quotations | Flaubert and me out on the sea
All my life I have tried to live in an ivory tower. But a sea of shit has......
Rescuing the Future | The attack on Salman Rushdie | his book Joseph Anton
The attack on Salman Rushdie yesterday......was a shock to me, but not a surprise.
Rescuing Fiction and Non-Fiction | Darius Foroux and his 100 books for you to read.
What I'm going to give you here is not all of Foroux's 100 recommended books (there will be a link to them at the end), only those of the 100 that I have read, and why I think you should, or shouldn't read them. Here's my selection: (1) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. One of Rome's … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction and Non-Fiction | Darius Foroux and his 100 books for you to read.
Rescuing Fiction | The Most Influential Sci-Fi Books of all Time by K. W. Colyard
When I saw the title of this post by K.W. Colyard, I felt my usual reaction of mild curiosity mixed with scepticism. A reader of SF since the 1950s, I've found most commentary of this kind disappointingly superficial, and sometimes outright wrong. What a surprise was in store for me. Kristian Wilson Colyard is an … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction | The Most Influential Sci-Fi Books of all Time by K. W. Colyard
Rescuing Fiction | George Eliot and Daniel Deronda | an autistic critique of the great psychological novel
If I was asked to choose the ten greatest scenes in literature, this one would be near the top.
Rescuing Fiction | Hemingway’s lost stories | Where are they now?
Do you know the story about Hemingway's lost stories? How his wife Hadley, when he asked her to bring all his manuscript drafts to Trieste where he was reporting on an international conference for the Toronto Star, accidentally lost the suitcase containing them in a railway station? The suitcase was never found. For a long … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction | Hemingway’s lost stories | Where are they now?
Rescuing Fiction | 10 forgotten Novels you might want to read
When the public stops reading a novel, that book goes into a hibernation that it may never emerge from. The winter of the forgotten can last forever. Some books are never forgotten, and that’s usually because of a character. Many of Dickens’ characters – think of Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol - may prove … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction | 10 forgotten Novels you might want to read
Alan Conrad 