Or: What is it Like to be a Housewife?
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Sunday Afternoon
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Backsides
A funny flash story.
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Monthly Review: November 2022
A slowish month.
Short essay on craft.
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The Doll
100-word story.
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Monthly Review: October 2022
An English Hollywood actor’s autobiography, my first Cormac McCarthy and J. M. Coetzee, a study of my favourite novelist, and some Bertie & Wooster to round things off.
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Giveaway: *Sandman*
Answer a simple question for a chance to win a hard copy of *Sandman.*
Last Sunday I reviewed Berner’s 2022 novella *Sandman,* a novella that uses golf as a metaphor. Today I have the pleasure of speaking with David about the book, his experience with the sport, and the writing life.
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The Hours
“The Hours” explores deracination via the protagonist’s skewed time perception. How do you tell time when you’re insulated in a climate-and-lighting-controlled environment, doing the same desk work day after day, isolated from the weather, the changing seasons, and the life rhythms of the people on the street? Having realised you’re alienated, which way do you go — back to life, or deeper into the belly of the beast?
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Sandman (2022). David W. Berner
Full of humour and vivid natural scenes, colourful characters and introspective passages, Sandman is many things: a coming-of-age tale, a mystery, and a meditation on golf as a metaphor for life.
Amita Basu 