She looks for relief among some of the old ones –
Below are links to some in-depth posts on books, film and television that I’ve written over the years. I’m going to start pulling links together today (4/22/2019) and just take my time with it. Let’s get going.
Oh, and please know: these are randomly pulled – there’s no order here, at all. I’m just making my way through my blog and other sites.
Fiction:
Vespers in Vienna by Bruce Marshal (1)
Vespers in Vienna by Bruce Marshall (2)
The Way We Live Now – Anthony Trollope
Walker Percy: A Courageous Life
The Comedians by Graham Greene
The Good Companions by J.B. Priestley
The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
The Blood of the Lamb by Peter de Vries
Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh
A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
The Pied Piper and The Trustee From the Toolroom by Nevil Shute
The Little Misery by Francois Mauriac
Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy
House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
Gone so Long by Andre Dubus III
Raising the Dad by Tom Matthews
Dorothy B. Hughes:
Harry Potter – written in the midst of the original publication of the series for OSV.
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
Dog of the South by Charles Portis
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Short stories by de Maupassant
Two posts on Bel Ami by de Maupassant:
Washington Square by Henry James
Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
The Girl on the Via Flamina by Alfred Hayes
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver
Followers by Megan Angelo
Work Shirts for Madmen by George Singleton
The Index of Self-Destructive Acts by Christopher Beha
Black Wings Has My Angel by Eliot Chaze
A Rogue’s Life by Wilkie Collins
The Queens Gambit by Walter Tevis
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford
Flesh and Blood by Francois Mauriac (1) and (2)
What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Wreath for the Enemy by Pamela Frankau and (2)
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Serenade by James M. Cain
Motley Stones by Adalbert Stifter
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen (1) and (2)
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
Non-Fiction:
Brand Luther by Andrew Pettegree
An Empire Divided by J.P. Daughton
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
The Vapors by David Hill
Splash! 10,000 Years of Swimming by Howard Means
Dirt by Bill Buford
Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife by Ariel Sabar, part 1
In Context: Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, and Their World by Marc O’Keefe
Philosopher’s Holiday by Irwin Edwin
That Summer in Paris by Morley Callaghan(1) and (2)
Extra: Notes and Highlights from various books I’ve read on Kindle