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Serials

I’ve recently read two great novels that were written as serials, Michael Chabon’s Gentlemen of the Road and Charles Portis’s True Grit. Of course, lots of classic novels have been written this way.  Dickens, for instance, wrote serials. I’m writing … Continue reading

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The Lure of the Secret World

I think one of the things I find most attractive in any novel is the feeling that it is telling me secrets about the world I live in.  You see this simply and pretty clearly in a lot of middle … Continue reading

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