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Book Review: Everything and Less – The Novel in the Age of Amazon by Mark McGurl

April 24, 2024
Everything and Less - The Novel in the Age of Amazon by Mark McGurl

What has Amazon done to the novel? An easy answer (at least for those of us who have followed self-publishing circles) might be to bring up the “tsunami of crap” argument that was really popular in first half of the 2010s. But with Hugh Howey’s Wool, E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey, and much more,… Read More Book Review: Everything and Less – The Novel in the Age of Amazon by Mark McGurl

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Book Review: The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong translated by JaHyun Kim Haboush

November 9, 2023
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong translated by JaHyun Kim Haboush

I found this book while looking for other books that Dorothy Ko was involved in (she wrote the excellent Cinderella’s Sisters) and was instantly intrigued by this memoir by a crown princess of 18th century Korea. Ko wrote the foreward to this translation, which is how I found it. To make things more interesting, Lady… Read More Book Review: The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong translated by JaHyun Kim Haboush

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Book Review: Reading the Tale of Genji edited by Thomas Harper and Haruo Shirane

October 23, 2023
Reading the Tale of Genji edited by Thomas Harper and Haruo Shirane

It has been a very long while since I read a Genji-related book and I felt the urge to dive into this meaty tome. Subtitled: “Sources from the First Millenium”, Reading the Tale of Genji translates a selection of texts about the Tale of Genji, providing more context for how the tale achieved its present… Read More Book Review: Reading the Tale of Genji edited by Thomas Harper and Haruo Shirane