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Review: Flannery – A Life of Flannery O’Connor

Posted on February 17th, 2010

As prologue to my planned series of postings in which I write about my critical reactions to Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood, here is the link to my BookLoons review of Brad Gooch’s biography, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor.

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Review – The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on February 5th, 2010

The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe by Scott Peeples

Camden House

ISBN 978-1-57113-357-1

Trade Paperback

Perhaps few authors are more significant to the development of the American short story than Edgar Allan Poe.

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Another Revision of a Translation? Needed?

Posted on September 2nd, 2009

Well, it appears that another new version of the Bible is on the way to 21st century readers. An article in the Christian Science Monitor provides a few intriguing details.


I suppose there is nothing inherently wrong with “modernizing” the language of the Bible in order to make it more accessible, but the revisers–to my mind–must be careful to work with reliable, “original” sources rather than simply changing diction and paraphrasing recent versions in order to appeal to 21st century readers and political correctness.

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