Martin Eden by Jack London

  This quote sums up the book Martin Eden, for the most part anyways. Martin is ill, with love that is and his class-consciousness isn’t really helping his malady. Martin is an ambitious sailor who has a penchant/knack for writing. It is only at the end of the book that he can finally see that [...]

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“I decided I knew nothing.”

When I was in high school I got in trouble during Physical Science class. I was a freshman and didn’t really care for school at all. My teacher, Mrs. Stonbraker, ordered me to write 500 words on why I shouldn’t misbehave. Naturally I wrote something to the effect of: If I misbehave I will not only [...]

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A Flannery O’Connor biography reviewed on Salon.com

Over at Salon.com a new Flannery O’Connor biography was reviewed.  I was surprised to learn of the animosity between her and Carson McCullers.  Having studied Southern Gothic Literature in college I was happy to read this review of her biography. It mentions G. K. Chesterton in passing, relating his Catholic faith to Ms. O’Connor’s.  Here [...]

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He did some of this and some of that now he’s dead

John Updike has died. Now may a new generation emerge? Oh the horror of someone who has exhausted their pen on mindless suburban fictive elements.  I wrote a while back on his sheepish review of Toni Morrison. Yeah that’s all I have to say about Mr. Updike.

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The Newbie or Confessions of a Debauched Blogger

So I’m a newbie to the world of Thomas Pynchon. Though I should know all about his accomplishments and such, I don’t. But I have stumbled upon the Wiki for the notoriously reclusive author. I don’t know why I swallowed the fly. In other words, I don’t know what brought me to him today, maybe [...]

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Currently Reading….

I am currently reading the 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos. Or trying to read anyways… This book is kind of boring, well at least the part about the glorification of the working man and the imminent uprising of the worker constantly on the author’s mind. I wouldn’t suggest reading this experiment of a book.  I [...]

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