Contemporary Literature

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• [246] Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

  
  A Guy's Moleskine Notebook — Authority: 125
  “The human soul enjoys these rare, classic periods, but, apart from them, we are seldom single or unique; we keep company in this world with a hoard of abstractions and reflections and counterfeits of ourselves—the sensual man, the economic man, the man of reason, the beast . . . indistinguishable from ourselves ...
  2 days ago

• Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

  
  "3Rs Reading Den" — Authority: 107
  Cemetery Dance Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child ISBN 10: 1600242650 ISBN 13: 9781600242656 Grand Central Publishing Unabridged Audio, 12CDs, 13.5hr Read by Rene Auberjonois’ www.prestonchild.com Hachette Audio  Cemetery [...]
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• [244] The Year of Ice – Brian Malloy

  
  A Guy's Moleskine Notebook — Authority: 125
  But if Randy’s death taught me anything, it’s that life is short. I know it’s nuts, it’s impulsive, I haven’t thought it through at all. But sometimes, Kevin, you just have to say ‘what the heck?’ and take a chance. [144] The Year of Ice follows the life of Kevin Doyle, who turns eighteen in ...
  1 week ago

• A Cause for Celebration: The Launch of José Muñozs Book

  
  GW English News — Authority: 122
  The room was packed. Latecomers were forced to stand in the back of the room next to the champagne and chocolate dipped strawberries. To many GW students Thursday is the start of the weekend, but the GW English Department was celebrating for a different reason, the launch of Wang Visiting Professor José Muñozs ...
  2 weeks ago

• [242] The Calligrapher’s Daughter – Eugenia Kim

  
  A Guy's Moleskine Notebook — Authority: 125
  “You must always think first of your family, your father, and put your own thoughts and desires last. We live in hard times hat we pray will get better. Hard times. You must be careful and obey your parents in all things. Agreed? [10] Nicknamed Najin when she was eight, the heroine in The Calligrapher’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Indignation

  
  Profmike's Weblog — Authority: 107
  At the age of seventy-six Philip Roth remains as prolific as ever – perhaps even more so, as if time is running out on him to write all the books he has left within him. Indignation was his novel of last year, like Everyman before it, is a book of modest length – a mere 233 pages of generously sized type. I ...
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• Kamila Shamsie – Burnt Shadows

  
  Incurable Logophilia — Authority: 112
  It is rare to encounter a novel that is both historical as well as acutely contemporary. Kamila Shamsie’s novel Burnt Shadows begins in Nagasaki in 1945, moves forward to India on the eve of British departure in 1947, then to Pakistan in 1982 and eventually to New York in 2001. The element linking these four ...
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• [241] Maurice – E.M. Forster

  
  A Guy's Moleskine Notebook — Authority: 125
  Read my first review from almost three years ago. Maurice looked at him with tenderness. He was studying him, as in the earliest days of their acquaintance. Only then it was to find out what he was like, now what had gone wrong with him. Something was wrong.” [114] Written in 1914, E.M. Forster was ...
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• Your Official Introduction to José Muñoz

  
  GW English News — Authority: 122
  José Muñoz is off to Berlin this week. But do not worry, our already much-loved Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary Literature this semester is enjoying his time at GW, its just that his work has just been translated into German hence the trip. It is really no surprise that Muñoz is always traveling. He is a ...
  4 weeks ago

• [239] Surprising Myself – Christopher Bram

  
  A Guy's Moleskine Notebook — Authority: 125
  “It frightened me because Corey was a guy. I wanted to protect it because such a love was so ridiculous and fragile. Love was for marriage, and I couldn’t marry Corey . . . I couldn’t distinguish the excitement of my fear from the excitement of love.” [61] Joel Scherzenlieb grows up at a time given to ...
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• [237] Fixer Chao – Han Ong

  
  A Guy's Moleskine Notebook — Authority: 125
  “I had entered this world of privilege where the people had taken me in as one of their own, and had been entirely comfortable divesting themselves of ugly things in my presence. These people, in my imagination, lived in a glass bubble filled with money, aerated and sent flying in all directions.” [100] Never ...
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