208. (Marcel Proust)

To illuminate Proust, consider Zola, who aspires, like Proust to a mythic scale, and whose novel Germinal is an epic … More

85. (William Faulkner)

Two American authors in the 1920s set out on a common task, without knowing it. William Faulkner and Willa Cather … More

Here is the second part of the Zola post; undoubtedly shorter, as the fire of fresh reading has sputtered. But … More

In the spirit of a reading journal, here’s the first of a two-part attempt to say something coherent about Zola’s … More