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2023 Year in Reading and Reviews
By Jay Innis Murray So, that was 2023. I finished 60 books this year. Some of them were short, but 60 is a high number for me. My website does not seem to generate much browsing. That’s either a bug or a feature. I’ll let somebody else decide, but I’ll use this opportunity to link… Continue reading
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The Empty House on Mulholland: A Review of The Shards by Bret Ellis
By Jay Innis Murray “Pastiche is… blank parody, a statue with blind eyeballs.” – Fredric Jameson “We’re the kids in America.” – Kim Wilde He drives a Mercedes 450 SL on the freeways, around Beverly Hills, and to Palm Springs (American Gigolo). Rich teens in Los Angeles get into unsupervised adult stuff (Less Than Zero).… Continue reading
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All posts by Jay Innis Murray.
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