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A Review of The Sitter (2023) by Angela O’Keeffe
By Jay Innis Murray I could not help wondering last evening whether my attempt to describe the woman in the red armchair had given you any clear idea of it. – Rilke in a letter of October 23, 1907 Of the risks that paid off during the research and development era for English-language fiction (i.e. Continue reading
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My Five Favorite Reads of the Year
My tracker tells me I started 70 books this year and finished 30. The 30 include several re-reads. The five books I’m recommending here are first time reads that I finished this year. So, no Solenoid for now, since I haven’t finished it yet. No Moby-Dick since I’ve read it before. No particular order here Continue reading
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Used Bookstore Haul (Delillo, Melville, Hawthorne and Doctorow) 9.16.22
Today’s best find at the used bookstore was a first edition of Libra by Don DeLillo for $5.00. Got the entire stack for under $20. The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Pierre by Melville, and The Book of Daniel by EL Doctorow included. Continue reading
About Talking Big
All posts by Jay Innis Murray.
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