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Book Review / Metafiction / Nonfiction & True Crime Posted on: May 3, 2019

Over Seas of Memory, by Michaël Ferrier

Author Michaël Ferrier’s grandfather is a mystery. All the family knows, a scant two generations […]

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Book Review / Metafiction / Science Fiction Posted on: January 8, 2019January 13, 2019

Same Same, by Peter Mendelsund

If anyone could work out the precise formula for productive creativity would never have to […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Metafiction Posted on: November 29, 2018November 28, 2018

The Brahmadells, by Jóanes Nielsen

Imagine a triangle with its points in Iceland, Norway, and Scotland, skewed a little closer […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Metafiction Posted on: October 18, 2018October 16, 2018

Insurrecto, by Gina Apostal

Insurrecto, by Gina Apostal, is a strange hybrid of a novel. It encapsulates the Balangiga […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Metafiction Posted on: August 23, 2018February 19, 2024

The Book of Dirt, by Bram Presser

Unless a family is particularly close knit, garrulous, and practice good document management, the histories […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Metafiction Posted on: July 17, 2018July 15, 2018

Atonement, by Ian McEwan

Novels that feature writers as protagonists almost always remind me of the fact that, when […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Metafiction Posted on: July 15, 2018July 14, 2018

The Tale of the Missing Man, by Manzoor Ahtesham

Character can mean either a person imagined up by an author, but also the strengths […]

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Book Review / Metafiction / Short Stories Posted on: June 26, 2018June 25, 2018

Sentimental Tales, by Mikhail Zoshchenko

I am a staunch advocate of New Historicism. This school of thought argues that, in […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Metafiction Posted on: June 22, 2018July 25, 2018

Mary B, by Katherine J. Chen

Some readers are going to hate Katherine J. Chen’s Mary B: An Untold Story of Pride and Prejudice. […]

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Book Review / Fantasy / Horror / Metafiction / Short Stories Posted on: May 29, 2018May 28, 2018

The Merry Spinster, by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

I’ve been chasing the high of reading Angela Carter’s collection, The Bloody Chamber, ever since I […]

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