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Germaine Greer, in The Guardian : In 1978, a guest at my little house in the Tuscan hills left behind a paperback copy of Colleen McCullough... novel readingsbestbadbook https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2007/12/next-term-in-my-classes-anticipation.html Novel Readings: Next Term in My Classes: An Anticipation I haven't finished with this term's classes yet (my 19thC Novel students wrote their exam this afternoon, and I have papers coming in tomorr... novel readingsmy classesnexttermanticipation https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2007/07/cynthia-ozick-puttermesser-paired.html Novel Readings: Cynthia Ozick, "Puttermesser Paired" Not ever having been a regular reader of The New Yorker , I learned only belatedly about Puttermesser, but as soon as I read a review of The... novel readingscynthia ozickpaired https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2010/01/ Novel Readings: January 2010 Notes on Literature and Criticism novel readingsjanuary https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-best-of-decade-idiosyncratic-list.html?showComment=1254068031105 Novel Readings: My Best of the Decade: An Idiosyncratic List The Millions has just finished its countdown of the "Best of the Millenium." Through their polling processes, they've ended up with two lis... best of the decadenovel readingsidiosyncraticlist https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2008/08/ Novel Readings: August 2008 Notes on Literature and Criticism novel readingsaugust https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-best-of-decade-idiosyncratic-list.html?showComment=1254231474103 Novel Readings: My Best of the Decade: An Idiosyncratic List The Millions has just finished its countdown of the "Best of the Millenium." Through their polling processes, they've ended up with two lis... best of the decadenovel readingsidiosyncraticlist https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2009/10/wit-and-wisdom-of-george-eliot-i.html?showComment=1256924284367 Novel Readings: The Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot (I) In 1871 an enthusiastic young reader named Alexander Main received George Eliot's permission to publish a collection of inspirational excerp... wit and wisdomnovel readingsgeorge eliot https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2007/03/sara-paretsky-fire-sale.html Novel Readings: Sara Paretsky, Fire Sale While writing a series of novels featuring the same detective allows an author to develop the main character (it's a requirement of detectiv... novel readingssara paretskyfiresale https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2009/06/summer-reading-project-ii-villette.html Novel Readings: Summer Reading Project II: Villette I've posted the information for this year's Summer Reading Project at The Valve. 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When he ... novel readingsguardian https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2007/09/mad-as-hell-at-literary-critics.html?showComment=1189612620000 Novel Readings: Mad as Hell--at Literary Critics? This particularly virulent comment appeared quite promptly after excerpts from my previous post appeared at Footnoted (see also update be... mad as hellnovel readingsliterarycritics https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2009/03/this-week-and-last-in-my-classes-march.html?showComment=1238007840000 Novel Readings: This Week (and Last) in My Classes (March 24, 2009) In Mystery and Detective Fiction , we have been working on examples of the police procedural, including short stories by Ed McBain, Peter Ro... novel readingsthis week https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2007/12/post-about-bookslackluster-response.html?showComment=1198960920000 Novel Readings: Post About Books=Lackluster Response? In his reflections on " The Best and Worst of Intellectual Blogs 2007 ," Joseph Kugelmass remarks "the consistently lackluster response to ... novel readingsabout bookspostlacklusterresponse https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2008/10/pedagogy-evaluation-and-what-we-look.html?showComment=1224255180000 Novel Readings: Pedagogy, Evaluation, and What We Look for in 'the' Novel (cross-posted to The Valve ) Recent threads at The Reading Experience (including this acrimonious one launched by Dan's blunt denunciation... what we look fornovel readingspedagogyevaluation https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2008/06/victorian-halifax.html Novel Readings: Victorian Halifax I complain a lot about living in Halifax, but when spring finally arrives out here, the city has some redeeming features. This bright, beau... novel readingsvictorianhalifax https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2008/01/this-week-in-my-classes-january-31-2008.html Novel Readings: This Week in My Classes (January 31, 2008) This week I've been preoccupied with graduate admissions--about which, for obvious reasons, I won't say more here, except that it is a proce... novel readingsthis weekmy classesjanuary https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2007/03/john-sutherland-how-to-read-novel.html Novel Readings: John Sutherland, How to Read a Novel How to Read a Novel is an eccentric, miscellaneous, diverting, informative and annoying book. Its basic premise is that we can all use som... how to readnovel readingsjohn sutherland https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2009/06/academic-blogging-at-accute.html Novel Readings: Academic Blogging at ACCUTE I've been meaning to say a little bit about the lunch-hour session on academic blogging that I convened at ACCUTE last week. As some of you... novel readingsacademic blogging https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2007/09/mad-as-hell-at-literary-critics.html?showComment=1189973940000 Novel Readings: Mad as Hell--at Literary Critics? This particularly virulent comment appeared quite promptly after excerpts from my previous post appeared at Footnoted (see also update be... mad as hellnovel readingsliterarycritics https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2008/05/who-reads-scott-anymore.html?showComment=1211902860000 Novel Readings: Who Reads Scott Anymore? Skipping back along a chain of links this morning, I found myself at this article in " The Reader Online " by Brian Nellist, a long-time me... novel readingsreadsscottanymore https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2007/07/susan-minot-evening.html Novel Readings: Susan Minot, Evening Seeing the previews for the new movie of Evening reminded me that the novel had been sitting on my shelf "ripening" for a few years, so I d... novel readingssusan minotevening https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2007/04/robert-b-parker-school-days.html Novel Readings: Robert B. Parker, School Days Works for me every time! There is a certain sameness about the Spenser novels, to be sure, but their consistency is usually a virtue. And ... novel readingsparker schoolrobertdays https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2007/01/joan-didion-year-of-magical-thinking.html Novel Readings: Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking First of all, The Year of Magical Thinking is a strange kind of book. 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Books I'm most glad I read, either for the intrinsic richness of th... novel readings https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2008/10/george-levine-on-vanity-fair.html?showComment=1223315280000 Novel Readings: George Levine on Vanity Fair Unsurprisingly, eminent Victorianist George Levine writes well about " Vanity Fair and Victorian Realism" in his newly released How to Rea... novel readingsgeorgelevinevanityfair https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2008/03/dead-critics-that-is.html Novel Readings: The Dead (Critics, That Is) Dan Green alerts us to William Deresiewicz's essay " Professing Literature in 2008 " in The Nation , in which the author draws some dire co... novel readingsthe deadcritics https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2008/10/recent-reading-three-novels-by-lady.html Novel Readings: Recent Reading: Three Novels by Lady Novelists (None of Them Silly) I mentioned one of these novels, briefly, before : Rachel Cusk's Arlington Park , describing it as "a very angry book, bitter even," and ask... https://maitzenreads.blogspot.com/2010/01/is-arguing-for-practical-utility-of.html?showComment=1264046640835 Novel Readings: Is Arguing for the Practical Utility of Literary Studies Ultimately Self-Defeating? There's a review of Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas up at Slate : The Marketplace of Ideas is a diagnostic book, not a prescripti...