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Tom Conoboy's Writing Blog
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Reviews of mostly American (especially southern) literature and writing craft features.
- Added on: Jun 6th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Tom Conoboy
- Listed in: Writing Philosophy
- Tags: cormac mccarthy nietzsche flannery o'connor southern literature writing craft tom conoboy
Recent Posts
Buy a Blake
I'm a member of Tate, and so they sent me this email about the possibility of them purchasing some of William Blake's etchings:As the keeper of the National Collection of British art, Tate is constantly searching for ways to develop our collection of...
A Jungian analogy
Carl Jung:We have then to describe and to explain a building, the upper storey of which was erected in the nineteenth century, the ground floor dates from the sixteenth century, and a careful examination of the masonry discloses the fact that it was ...
Best of the National Book Awards
A while ago I mentioned that the National Book Awards survey to find the best of its winners over the past sixty years. The results are in - though you'd be hard pushed to find anything about it on their surprisingly poor website - and, of course, it...
Time and myth
Reading up on Jungian archetypes at the moment, and trying to decide whether Jung was a charlatan or a scientist. This is G. Van Der Leeuw on myth and time, an area of particular Jungian interest:Time and myth belong together. Myth creates time, give...
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
Legend of a Suicide is a collection of five short stories and a novella, loosely brought together to form a narrative whole. In that respect I’m not sure it’s entirely successful – some of the short stories were previously published separately ...
David Vann on Blood Meridian
Ah synchronicity, don't you love it? I've just finished David Vann's Legend of a Suicide and am in the process of doing a review of it, and here he is in today's Guardian writing about Blood Meridian.When he first read Blood Meridian, he was actually...
