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Jessica is the co-founder of the highly popular arts site www.Cosmoetica.com, which has been praised by film critic Roger Ebert and noted in The New York Times. She's been writing fiction, poetry and reviews for more than a decade, and her work has been featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer, PopMatters, Examiner, storySouth, Monsters and Critics, among a number of other literary sites. She has spent the past several years studying Japanese literature and film and will be featured in an upcoming Million Writers Award anthology in 2012.
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Steppenwolf, Demian and Siddhartha are still stronger works overall, but Narcissus and Goldmund is not too far behind.
Sandor Marai reminds me of the closest literary equivalent to Ingmar Bergman, and that can only be a good thing.
A little more psychology and less strategy would have made The Master of Go something a bit more memorable and for that matter…quotable.
Not since Willa Cather can I recall such a strong novelist not bound by her sex or ethnicity.
Japan At War presents each interviewee as individuals, not mere talking heads pontificating about nationalism or Communism or whichever ism serves them.
Harp of Burma offers a new slant to the war at large, in that it is not about the actual dead, but those who press on through life and in afterlife.
These oral histories are not just worth examining for the historical context, but also as a study of memory itself.
There’s no doubt that this novel does an excellent job capturing this event, and does so with very readable prose.
These stories do contain wonderful moments of lyricism.
The Silent Cry reads like a novel with potential, but not one of Oe’s best.
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