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Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson Review By Dan Geddes Winesburg’s Reception I can understand why Winesburg, Ohio was shocking for its time: the veneer of Victorian innocence in small town American life is pierced, revealing tormented psyches even among ... More »
Outer Dark Cormac McCarty Review By Dan Geddes Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark draws from the long tradition of existentialist literature from Eccliesiastes to King Lear to The Stranger.[1] It creates a world devoid of God, purpose, causality; a world where man... More »
Review by Dan Geddes See also: A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Son of the Circus, The Fourth Hand and an imaginary review of Irving’s The Third Leg A Widow For One Year by John Irving John Irving’s A Widow for One Year chronicles the history of the Cole... More »
Imaginary review by Dan Geddes JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI—An academic conference, “Incest, Murder and Mutes in Faulkner’s Early Fiction” was held here last week to discuss an astonishing development in the history of Faulkner scholarship—the possible disco... More »
Hapworth 16, 1924 J.D. Salinger Review By Dan Geddes 10 October 2000 Note: This review was originally written as a review for the book version of “Hapworth 16, 1924,” which was announced for publication in 1997, but withdrawn at the last moment by Salinger... More »
By Dan Geddes (With apologies to Ambrose Bierce, author of The Cynic’s Word Book.) Christmas Christmas Season, The Consumer Cool Credit Card Drug War, The History Internet, The Irony Like Model Product Placement Republican “Saturday Night of Justice”... More »
See also: A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Widow for One Year The Fourth Hand and an imaginary review of Irving’s The Third Leg A Son of the Circus John Irving Review By Dan Geddes John Irving’s command of his material is masterful. He will make y... More »
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe Review By Dan Geddes 10 January 2000 Thomas Wolfe shows his readers the magic in everyday life. Look Homeward, Angel is the story of an early twentieth century North Carolina family as told through the eyes of the youngest ... More »