Burning Thoughts Lookback at 2023
8 stories. Numerous articles on thinking, economics, and society.
Robert Hamill
8 stories. Numerous articles on thinking, economics, and society.
When I said, "Hi, how you doing?" this attractive brunette with a flip hairdo looked at me as if I'd spoken a foreign language. She said something back that had a "ya" in it.
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 I finished scolding myself, I recalled that I'd taken a…
The bright streamers seemed pennants of aristocratic families and fair beauties. Local peasants hawked their handiworks, made in the dim light of the fireside, after long hours of hard labor on their master's domain. The…
What counts more to you - style or substance? Can a woman write a male lead as credibly as she writes a female lead? Can a man - vice versa?
Hitherto, I could only notice the effect and relate it to a mysterious control the author had over the story. Now I see a way that it can be done.
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 described the mother in either style.