Greig Roselli — Teacher, Writer, Philosophy Sprinkles Maker

In this post, I write a review of the novel A Tangled Mercy by Joy Jordan-Lake. Warning: spoilers are included in this review.   I Had Read...

“The quickest way to spoil a friendship is to wake somebody up in the morning before he is ready.” - Charlotte, from Charlotte's W...

Absolute Brightness is a young adult novel.   Absolute Brightness by James Lecesne Paperback, 352 pages Published May 31st, 2016 by Feiw...

What is the experience of reading a novel?  The experience of reading novels is a solitary one. While it is common to hear authors read f...

When I read novels I do not see images when I read.  I may see an image emerge in my mind’s eye after the reading has been done, but duri...

I didn't keep an official list for 2011, but here is what I recalled from my fragmentary mental database. Also listed is my best and ho...

Involuntary memory is a chance happening precipitated by an object Voluntary and Involuntary Memories       For Proust, time stands sti...

Man Ray. Harper's Bazaar, November 1936. The Unkind Treatment of Photographs in La Recherche      Photographs are not treated kind...

Do you have failed first sentences of novels you tried to write? Here's one: Her skin was chalky white, but Patrick thought she was ro...

Henry Caseroti,  Cock-A-Doodle-Doo , 2010 Every cock crows on its own dung hill Miguel Cervante s , Don Quixote PDF Copy for Print...

Something Missing Book Review: Something Missing: A Novel by Matthew Dicks Broadway Books © 2009 304 pages     Matthew Dicks’s firs...

Ornate Language / Simple Language David Foster Wallace does a grand job of showing ornate language and its simple substitutes. Who is bet...

He told me this morning the four train is beast. Not beast as in animal. But beast as in best. I had taken it on Sunday after a visit to my ...

Never Let Me Go     K azuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go has recently been released as a film, due out in theaters today. I am a...

In this post, I write a comparison essay outlining differences in "cave allegory" imagery in Plato's Republic and Ralph Elli...

Why Madame Rawdon “was no better than a vipère”: S he became a perfect Bohemian ere long, herding with people whom it would make your ...

Pairing image with text in a narrative is contradictory: the flowing voice of the narrator with the frozen, almost totemic, images, is a s...