by Vicraj Gill
Since 2005, the folks at The Millions have asked notable writers at year’s end to share their “Year in Reading” . . . A fair number of Bloomers are present in this year’s feature, as both contributors and favorites. Continue reading
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IN HIS OWN WORDS: Norman Rush
Every serious writer is implicitly or explicitly asking that question. What is it that I’m writing about? What does it have to do with the seemingly autonomous evolution of increasingly less propitious circumstances to make change? And the answer to that is the central and most compelling question, it seems to me, for people who write novels which incorporate serious politics and political thinking into them. Continue reading
Thought Episodes: Norman Rush’s Novels of Ideas
by Jennifer Acker Shah
Particularly striking in Rush’s books is the rich development of both action and thought. His stories are stuffed with what the author calls “thought episodes.” Norman Rush’s idiosyncratic, strong-willed people act and think for themselves. Continue reading
