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‘American Style in American Fiction’: It’s Unique and in Many Ways Superior

It might be a pointless exercise to compare the literatures of two nations separated by mo...

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‘Malice’: A Quietly Passionate Mystery

There are two strains in the tradition of the mystery story. They exist in tension but are...

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‘Ritual’ Mystery Novel Ruined by Cliches, Politics, Spiritualist Advocacy

I really like the reviewing work of Steve Steinbock in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine....

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Prose Fiction Update With A Bit of Poetry

Another week, another passel of links into the wide, wide world of wondrous word-smith...

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Dick Francis, Manly Novelist

A while back I read Dick Francis' mystery, Decider, and decided I'd be reading more. So I ...

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Prose Fiction Update

For your reading pleasure, as the work week comes to a close. Spend some time this weeke...

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Ten Books for Conservatives (podcast)

From Accuracy in Media, in a podcast Don Irvine talks with Dr. Benjamin Wiker, author of 1...

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Fiction Friday: Stories, News, Reviews & Opinion From the Publishing World

News of publishing's demise is greatly exaggerated. Wander into any bookstore, be it a ...

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Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Attacked, Defended

Author Harper Lee and her groundbreaking novel To Kill a Mockingbird have received a well-...

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Stephen King Strikes Out with ‘Blockade Billy’

Baseball inspires great stories. W. P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe and Bernard Malamud’s T...

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The World of ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’—George Orwell’s Unhappy School Days Writ Large

In a recent article (also available as a podcast), "The Brilliant but Confused Radicali...

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“Just One More Thing . . . .”—Lt. Columbo Is on the Case

The Columbo Collection by William Link Crippen & Landru Publishers Hardcover: ISBN-97...

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John Sandford Shakes Things Up in ‘Wicked Prey’

Minnesota author John Sandford (real name John Camp) has established a nice little fran...

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Bronte Films on the Rise

Filmmakers are moving on from Jane Austen to the more romantic and emotionally explicit no...

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Happy Birthday, Nancy Drew

The Nancy Drew book series just reached its 80th anniversary. These books were of better q...

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‘The Redbreast’ Raises Interesting Moral Questions, With Few Answers

'It's an historian's duty to uncover, not to judge.' He lit his pipe. 'Many people belie...

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Libby Malin’s “My Own Personal Soap Opera” Is Now Available

Libby Malin's My Own Personal Soap Opera is now available online or look for it at a books...

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Attend a Tea Party, Support the Arts

Bill Whittle is a clever, erudite and indefatigable proponent ofliberty and limited govern...

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‘Girl Who Played with Fire’ Is Impelled by Moral Obsession

If there was ever an author whose work I ought not to enjoy, it would be the late Stieg L...

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Fiction Friday courtesy The Culture Alliance

Today’s Fiction Friday newsletter from the Culture Alliance included pieces from the Cla...

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Praise for John Dickson Carr

The talented contemporary British writer Christopher Fowler pens an appreciation for impos...

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TCA’s Fiction Friday Previews “Dancing with Derrida”

The March 12 issue of Fiction Friday from the Culture Alliance, included a special excerpt...

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Are We Privileging Politics In Our Entertainment Choices?

Given my conservative frame of mind, fiction that bucks today’s politically correct dogm...

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Fiction Friday: Teaching Style vs. Grammar

Should a certain writing style be pushed by authors and teachers as embodying good writing...

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Review: Klavan’s Latest Will Leave You Breathless, Wanting More

Andrew Klavan shines with his latest young adult novel The Long Way Home. On several occa...

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Yevgeny Who?

   Jeff Riggenbach, at the libertarian Ludwig von Mises Institute, has a podcast about a...

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A Romantically Comic Novel That Will Set You Thinking

Fire Me: A Tale of Scheming, Dreaming and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places by  L...

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Fiction Friday

Some in Hollywood might think folks on the Right have limited artistic ability and should ...

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Fiction Friday’s focus on Robert B. Parker

On Monday, Janaury 18, 2010 Robert B. Parker joined Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Dash...

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Should Shakespeare Be Translated for Modern English?

John McWhorter sure thinks so, as he argues in “The Real Shakespearean Tragedy,” which...

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Bill Buckley as Novelist

William F. Buckley Jr. began and ended his public career as a writer, and judging from h...

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Author Libby Malin Sternberg on writing for romance and YA genres

The most recent issue of The Culture Alliance's Weekly Update (you can sign up for this ne...

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Twilight Series=Mormon Apologetics + Vampires + Werewolves

Literary scholar John Granger has identified a "distinctively Latter-day Saint theological...