Tag: fiction
member name: bruce henricksen
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April 13, 2008 05:01 PM EDT --
The older I get, the more I value short novels. It's a ratio thing. When I sit down to read, I wonder what percentage of my remaining life will be devoted to the book that is now in my hands. And what . . . more
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May 27, 2008 10:23 AM EDT --
Readers who enjoy metafiction , fiction that is about storytelling itself, will have more than a little fun pondering Charles Baxter's newest novel. This is not his first book . . . more
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July 16, 2008 01:35 PM EDT --
It seems as though each time you check his website, Ian McEwan has collected another award, and with the success of Atonement he has to be considered one of the great living novelists in English. Although . . . more
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March 13, 2008 07:50 PM EDT --
In The Art of Subtext , Minneapolis novelist Charles Baxter has gone well beyond other books on the writing of prose fiction. Baxter believes that fictional techniques work when they are rooted in basic . . . more
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May 25, 2008 05:43 PM EDT --
The Crow Road
O ften, on flights to the New Hope River, George and Ruby gazed down and marveled at the statue . . . more
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July 11, 2008 10:39 AM EDT --
Most of After the Floods is set in the fictional town of Cold Beak Minnesota, desolate from a flood. In these pages, Pete moves to Cold Beak from the Iron Range after the death of his wife.
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April 26, 2008 11:19 AM EDT --
Since I do a little writing, I enjoy metafiction, stories and novels in which the creative process itself is part of the theme. A great one from a couple of decades back was The French Lieutenant's . . . more
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March 23, 2008 08:06 PM EDT --
This passage is from my novel, After the Floods, a story of a town's recovery from disaster. The passage is part of the narrator's meditation on the past before he narrates the novel's final . . . more
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October 05, 2006 11:08 AM EDT --
Many of the stories in Ticket to a Lonely Town are set in Duluth and northern Minnesota. This story collection received second place honors last year for the Grace Paley Prize, a national competition. . . . more
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November 08, 2006 09:24 AM EST --
What happens when an evacuee from Hurricane Katrina meets a Minnesota barber with "extraterrestrial aspirations"? Find out in NEW BETHEL TRIM, available for downloading from Amazon Shorts. . . . more
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May 27, 2007 04:54 PM EDT --
In a Southern city where stray dogs discuss philosophy and crows write songs, a hurricane has rearranged more than just the roof tops. I saw it all. I heard it all. . . . more
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