Monthly Archives: October 2016

“Youth prefers to be tortured by youth…Youth to youth is the end of all wisdom.” – Konrad Bercovici The theme of this fourth in the ten volume collection The World’s 100 Greatest Short Stories (volume 1 here, volume 2, here, volume … Continue reading →

“…silent was the entire dark, deserted house.” – Leonid Andreyev This third installment in this series of essays (volume 1 here, volume 2 here) of this Grant Overton edited collection called The World’s 100 Best Short Stories focuses on the theme, … Continue reading →

“Only a moment; a moment of strength, of romance, of glamour — of youth!… A flick of sunshine upon a strange shore, the time to remember, the time for a sigh, and — goodbye!” – Joseph Conrad This second volume … Continue reading →

“The percentage of fiction which can hold its place with succeeding generations is, I believe, much smaller than critics suppose. Every generation has a right to insist that its own enjoyment of of experience is in one respect the best … Continue reading →

“Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that’s exactly the way we want it to be.” – Bob Dylan Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize for Literature and I have been struggling with how I feel … Continue reading →

“Through all her [Elizabeth’s] wavering and inconstancy, her hesitation and uncertainty, there was one faithful element – her sense of responsibility to her position.” -Katharine Anthony My latest foray into reading is a classic biography that I found in an … Continue reading →

“Haggard’s heroes attain a legendary stature as their adventures strip away what Tarzan, Lord Greystoke, calls ‘the veneer of civilization,’ and perpetually confront them with danger and death.’ – Robert Morsberger, Afterword to King Solomon’s Mines This begins with Ursula … Continue reading →

He is one of our most renowned travelers and explorers. Yet there is controversy about whether he actually went where he says he did. If only he’d taken a selfie stick and set up an Instagram account…. On my book … Continue reading →