Carolyn's Tumblings
2009
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2008
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2007
December
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Oil!
Upton Sinclair, 1927 The novels, The Ford (Mary Austin, 1917), Oil! (Upton Sinclair, 1927) and In...
Jun 26th
Encyclopedia Britannica on the Proletrarian Novel. ...
Jun 26th
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich 1984 I’m amazed. What a lovely book. I must read more of Erdrich. Just the...
Jun 26th
Family tree for Love Medicine.
Jun 26th
This made me smile, because I’m such a fan of...
Jun 21st
The Watch
Rick Bass, 1989 I’m rarely disappointed by recommendations from Jim Shepard, and this...
Jun 18th
A paragraph from “Choteau” by Rick Bass that I...
Jun 18th
"The Scarlet Plague"
Jack London, 1912 (etext here) London sets his story in the 2070s, after a fast-acting plague has...
Jun 17th
Gordon Grant illustration from the 1915 edition of...
Jun 17th
The Violent Bear it Away
Flannery O’Connor, 1960 I’d wanted to get more thoughts together on this book, but this...
Jun 16th
Nightwood
Djuna Barnes, 1936 The amazing (female!) American high-modernist writer I’d never heard of! ...
Jun 16th
(photo from a 2007 Washington Post re-assesment of...
Jun 11th
“Eco-thriller”
— Eco-thriller: In which the...
Jun 9th
Zodiac
Neal Stephenson, 1988 This book makes a great, page-turning, one-day read that nonetheless manages...
Jun 9th
Jun 6th
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
(& other stories) Dan read this collection earlier this year and lost patience with it. He...
Jun 6th
The Mountain Lion
Jean Stafford 1947 You pick it up, and you think, it’s a kids’ book, right? Little...
Jun 6th
The Known World
Edward P. Jones, 2004. It’s wonderful to be in the hands of someone who writes as beautifully...
Jun 5th