A Brief History of the Novel – Part Three

February 26, 2014 · by Eve Shulmister | in The Story of Books | tagged Absurdism, Albert Camus, Existentialism, F. Scott Fitzgerald, French Algeria, Henry James, Kurt Vonnegut, Modernism, Mrs. Dalloway, personal consciousness, Postmodernism, Psychology, Sigmund Freud, The Absurd, The Great Gatsby, The Plague, Virginia Woolf, William James | Leave a comment

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities…it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. ― G.K. Chesterton In the first two parts of this series, I gave a definition for the novel and traced its origins. We examined its evolution from 980 AD to the late 1800s. And along […]

Freshly Baked Books: Part One – A Review of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

May 29, 2013 · by Christina Kaylor | in Book Reviews | tagged bipolar disorder, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, The Roaring Twenties, Therese Anne Fowler, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald | Leave a comment

Starting this month we are branching out from our regular reviews to cover new books, fresh out of the oven. We’re taking a chance, just as you do when you read the jacket copy while browsing in your favorite bookstore. We can’t promise to love every page, every character, but we do promise not to […]