The poet and philosopher Rubem Alves writes about the idea of writing a story or a novel with just one word. Could it be done? What word would he choose? Which words has the power to tell the whole story?
Of a singular word Emily Dickinson wrote, “I know nothing in the world that has [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘novel’
July 26, 2008
As Close as We’ll Ever Be
July 17, 2008
For Writers, Readers, and Everyone Else
I think I’ll just shorten the title to WREE. That’s clever isn’t it? I thought so.
• I would give my left nut to go to this game.
• Writing a novel is kind of like a sappy love story. (via Ed Ass)
• Denis Johnson gets a rap for being a writers’ writer (as opposed to a [...]
June 3, 2008
Books and Links
I’m very tired. To say that in French you say, Je suis tres fatigue. I said that in French class because I was tired.
I’ve started reading No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July. It’s amazing. Read it if you get the chance. In other fiction I’m supposed to be reading March by [...]
May 21, 2008
Fallen by Matthew Raley
Fallen by Matthew Raley
Jim, the church chairman, sees his pastor, Dave, get out of a car with a woman who is not his wife. As Jim wades into the water with his confrontation of Dave’s actions he soon finds himself in the deep end of a scandal that changes from bad to worse.
Raley’s debut novel [...]
May 21, 2008
J.M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year
J.M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year is part opinion piece by the main character, Señor C, ranging in topics from politics to law to everyday occurrences. They are sharp and controversial and one cannot help but to think they are Coetzee’s words on subjects like the Iraq war and literature and the act of [...]
May 1, 2008
Dancing Jesus: Why The Church Has Failed The Youth — Part III
(Read Part I and Part II)
Youth Ministry is Done in Families
It’s difficult showing churches and ministries the benefits of shifting the focus from a segmented community to a Family that fosters numerous mature adult relationships.
As Chap Clark, author of Hurt: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers expresses, “Young people are desperate for an adult who cares.” He [...]
April 21, 2008
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
The hero of Remainder has recovered from an accident he doesn’t fully remember and from which he’s received a settlement making him a millionaire. He wavers in how to spend his money until a vision of sorts comes to him and he begins reproducing that vision into reality. But his “re-enactments” become more than just reproducing, they [...]
April 15, 2008
The Great Man by Kate Christensen
Kate Christensen’s novel The Great Man is more about the women who loved the great man, rather than Oscar Feldmen, a famous, eccentric painter and playboy, known for rejecting the popular abstractionist painters of his time, in order to pave his own path, which was painting women, and only women.
Five years after his death two [...]
December 18, 2007
When Crickets Cry
I went looking for an award winning book of Christian fiction and found Charles Martin’s When Crickets Cry. I couldn’t believe I’d never heard of him before. I even went to Powell’s and didn’t find his books in the shelves. I found a voice I didn’t know I was looking for. [...]
