Monthly Archives: December 2022

What About Us?

Literary writers often cherrypick tropes and topoi from pulp to spark plot, then fail to follow through. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike is a good first third of a Stephen King novel, but he didn’t follow through on … Continue reading

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Renewed As Always

In the Romantic Era, when artists and writers recoiled from some of the harshness brought by the Age of Reason, a beautiful, terminally-ill young woman, doomed, a tubercular Venus, was considered the most poignant of topics for art. Beauty and … Continue reading

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