Your thorough footnotes are helpful David, both for their rich information and for a possible answer to the question "how do I both educate my readers and not clog up the main article?"
Marguerite Duras, I am yet to read, but became curious about thanks to an essay by Rachel Kushner (in The hard crowd : essays 2000-2020). I must say "The Lover" is often given quite the trashy cover, so recommendations for the first of hers to start with are welcome.
Thanks for commenting! You probably should start with THE LOVER--it's sexy, true, but it's not at all trashy. Her writing is quite a scattershot--lots of small works, novella-length, and various nonfiction, war journals and that kind of thing. I advise spending some time with her Wiki and then poking about and seeing what interests you. Thanks also for commenting on my layout--I want the lists to look like lists---I fear that lots of people don't go to the notes, but this format lets me say as much or as little as I want--sometimes that includes some backstory re: my relationship to the book or writer. It works best when you read at the site (as opposed to in the email) and when using a laptop or tablet, because they let you hover the cursor over the footnote and it pops up without any scrolling/losing of one's place.
I was in college in 1960. But I read most of these later: Achebe, Wiesel, Updike, Graham Greene, O’Connor, Taylor Caldwell, Michener was a favorite in the 1980s, Leon Uris…Exodus was his best.
I didn't start college until the fall of 1966 and the vibe was quite different . . . to my shame I've still never read Weisel and Achebe. The problem with Weisel is I can't fire up to read any more Holocaust stuff at this point in my life. Achebe I'll get to.
At the moment, I'm gobbling up Sally Rooney's INTERMEZZO, then I'll resume my dive into Victober [Trollope's THE PRIME MINISTER] . . . I downloaded a free copy of the six Palliser novels to my Kindle--the Kindle tells you what percentage of your book you've read, which is fine for regular novels, but six Trollopes in one package? I read for an hour and the percentage marker might go from 71% to 72%. [I turn it off.]
Anyway, thanks for looking at the post and responding!
Your thorough footnotes are helpful David, both for their rich information and for a possible answer to the question "how do I both educate my readers and not clog up the main article?"
Marguerite Duras, I am yet to read, but became curious about thanks to an essay by Rachel Kushner (in The hard crowd : essays 2000-2020). I must say "The Lover" is often given quite the trashy cover, so recommendations for the first of hers to start with are welcome.
Thanks for commenting! You probably should start with THE LOVER--it's sexy, true, but it's not at all trashy. Her writing is quite a scattershot--lots of small works, novella-length, and various nonfiction, war journals and that kind of thing. I advise spending some time with her Wiki and then poking about and seeing what interests you. Thanks also for commenting on my layout--I want the lists to look like lists---I fear that lots of people don't go to the notes, but this format lets me say as much or as little as I want--sometimes that includes some backstory re: my relationship to the book or writer. It works best when you read at the site (as opposed to in the email) and when using a laptop or tablet, because they let you hover the cursor over the footnote and it pops up without any scrolling/losing of one's place.
I was in college in 1960. But I read most of these later: Achebe, Wiesel, Updike, Graham Greene, O’Connor, Taylor Caldwell, Michener was a favorite in the 1980s, Leon Uris…Exodus was his best.
I didn't start college until the fall of 1966 and the vibe was quite different . . . to my shame I've still never read Weisel and Achebe. The problem with Weisel is I can't fire up to read any more Holocaust stuff at this point in my life. Achebe I'll get to.
At the moment, I'm gobbling up Sally Rooney's INTERMEZZO, then I'll resume my dive into Victober [Trollope's THE PRIME MINISTER] . . . I downloaded a free copy of the six Palliser novels to my Kindle--the Kindle tells you what percentage of your book you've read, which is fine for regular novels, but six Trollopes in one package? I read for an hour and the percentage marker might go from 71% to 72%. [I turn it off.]
Anyway, thanks for looking at the post and responding!