Craft Lesson from a Movie
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Tag: Books Read
Book Appreciation The Language of Thought
Since I write about thinking, a review on Jerry Fodor’s The Language of Thought 1975 classic was a necessary research step. Jerry Fodor had a…
Stone Age in New Guinea
Nutritionally poor crops, not allowing excess production to support specialization Local animals were not large enough and trainable, leaving little excess talent available to come…
Magazines and Anthologies with Short Stories
I noticed the other day when I posted a snapshot of 'Buffalo Girls' that it was the first novel I'd read in 4 months. After…
Story or Essay
Diem Perdidi by Julie Otsuka It's a good example of the difference to a reader between a story and an essay. Ms. Otsuka could have…
On Writing Well – William Zinsser
Subtitle: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction Good, solid advice.
Pat Conroy
My Reading Life by Pat Conroy has some interesting book reports in it. In Gone With the Wind, he tells the story but always against…
Harrison Bergeron
Vonnegut's dystopia results from enforcing equality of results rather than equality of opportunity.