by Michael Lesiuk | May 16, 2013 | Fiction/Lit/Movies
Joe Hill has a new book out, and it’s filled with references to his father, Stephen King, to David Mitchell, and to Gerard Manley Hopkins (and to others, I’m sure). Although the references to Mitchell are somehow the most surprising to me, it’s the references to...
by Michael Lesiuk | Mar 11, 2013 | Fiction/Lit/Movies
I’m re-reading Stephen King’s Dark Tower series (so I know the ending), and so far I’ve been very impressed. Having re-read the earlier ones again (I’m on the sixth book, Song of Susannah, right now), some of the things that I was on the fence...
by Michael Lesiuk | Aug 13, 2012 | Writing-Convolutes
What does literary criticism say about the critic? This is the story of my life—that is what must always be heard when someone speaks of someone else, cites or praises him or her. — Jacques Derrida, Aporias p. 2 Dickens was no hero; he was a powerful, clever,...
