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A Review of The Cannibal Owl (2025) by Aaron Gwyn

By Jay Innis Murray There is a lot of dying in the 66 pages of Aaron Gwyn’s new novella The Cannibal Owl (published this January by Belle Point Press). This short book tells episodes in the life of Levi English (born 1817) who lived in Texas when it was still a frontier. It is a Continue reading
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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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Some Notes on a First Reading of The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
PLOT SPOILERS IN THIS. And I have it on good authority he doesn’t plan to write any more novels. This is going to be a “the story’s done. Turn the page” moment. – Rich Wallach, Secretary-Treasurer and founding member of the Cormac McCarthy Society in a reply on the cormacmccarthy.com forums, 11 July 2022 at Continue reading
About Talking Big
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