Review: Wally Lamb’s ‘She’s Come Undone’

Wow.  What a great book. I put it down, after finishing the final page, breathless and intoxicated with the images and prose still echoing and vibrating inside of me. In this story, the narrator, Dolores, recants most of her life, beginning in her childhood, when her father–unfaithful and abusive–abandons her and her mother.  Following a [...]

Read Full Post »

Book Review: Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘Beasts’

I read this short novel in three hours. Oates’s writing is vivid and succinct, but this story was not horribly unique. I have read many stories and seen many movies about the downside of the sexual “liberation” of the 70s (what a vivid description, eh?!) The imagery was interesting, though. Oates’s sparse and obvious prose [...]

Read Full Post »

to judge Hemingway…

an English major attempts to make a judgement regarding the writing of Ernest Hemingway.

Read Full Post »