At our first meeting we talked about Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. Now I know what you’re thinking—but I wasn’t the one who suggested it. I think the shroud of secrecy might have some holes in it, though.…
Category Archives: Literature
You can’t go wrong
Today was Free Comic Book Day. Did you get yours?…
Flyover States
My friends just had their novel published. You may consider buying it and then writing a glowing review.…
Simplify
“Our life is frittered away by detail. … Simplify, simplify.” —Henry David Thoreau…
This is the sea
The National Endowment for the Humanities is paying for me to go to Hawaii. See you later, chumps! Oh wait … I’m not leaving for a while.…
Direction
“I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.” —Anna Louise Strong…
Longing
“Were there then no longing in time, there would be no peace in eternity.” —Josiah Royce…
I am haunted by student loans
I was rereading “A River Runs Through It” and am again surprised a film was made out of it. What other movie have you seen where the big break is going to graduate school in English?…
Anti-entropic
“Whatever seeks out harm and avoids rewards must act against entropy. … determining to write has been an anti-entropic process for me. Even now I don’t understand why I do it, except for the fact that it is against entropy.” —from Wang Xiaobo’s “Why Do I Write”…
Just fish
I noticed that this page has been getting a lot of visits as the result of people searching for “ishiguro family supper explain” or something like that. Unfortunately, all I have are unhelpful links to a basic reading quiz and the story itself.
The best thing to do is go read the story again and …