The Ocean, the River, and the Tarn

Classic American Fiction: A Staggering Work of Heartbreaking Genius (Thanks, Dave)

Does “The Great Gatsby” Have a Reliable Narrator?

Cormac McCarthy’s Word Films

Critic Harold Bloom has described some of McCarthy’s work as derivative of William Faulkner’s and other work…

What Is American Fiction, but a Dream within a Dream?

How Can I Write Like William Faulkner or Cormac McCarthy?

You Can’t, but There’s a Little More to It.

The Eternal Ache of Loss in _The Catcher in the Rye_

What the Last Sentence Tells Us about Holden and…

What’s Wrong with Holden Caulfield in _The Catcher in the Rye_?

Boats against the Current, Mr. Fitzgerald?

The last sentence of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s archetypal…