Monthly Archives: July 2012

Want to see the influence of Chekhov on U.S. short story writing?

This is just one example of Chekhov’s influence, but it’s a great one. An apparently previously unpublished (?) short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, dating from 1936, printed in summer 2012 in The New Yorker. F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Thank You for … Continue reading

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Some Reasons Why Daenerys Targaryen’s Character Is Even Better in Game of Thrones Than in Song of Ice and Fire

  Note: this essay discusses books 1 and 2 of George R.R. Martin’s The Song of Ice and Fire and seasons 1 and 2 of HBO’s Game of Thrones.  There are no spoilers here regarding later books.   What thoughts … Continue reading

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More Holly Golightly than Daisy Miller….

Am greatly enjoying reading Elaine Dundy’s comic novel about a young American in the Left Bank of Paris in the early 1950s, The Dud Avocado (1958). It’s just been reissued in paperback.  The heroine Sally Jay Gorce is much closer … Continue reading

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