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July 31, 2014

Title Menu: 10 Great "Minor" Works by Major Writers

July 31, 2014/ Open Letters Monthly

The great writers of the ages were hardly (often) one-hit wonders. In praise of diversity, the staff at OLM celebrate the lesser-known b-sides of some pretty well known pens.

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Arts & Life
Aldous Huxley, August 2014, Elizabeth Gaskell, Gerald of Wales, greg waldmann, Hamlet, Henry Adams, Jack Hanson, John Cotter, john updike, Justin Hickey, Kathleen Rooney, maureen thorson, rohan maitzen, Sam Sacks, shakespeare, Steve Donoghue
November 30, 2012

Entitled to Extravagance: Some Historical Fictions of Anthony Burgess

November 30, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Some of Anthony Burgess' most accomplished inventions roam into the past, to Shakespeare and Marlowe's England and Jesus' Judea. How well has his historical fiction stood up across the years?

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November 30, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction, Literary Criticism, Arts & Life
Anthony Burgess, December 2012, fiction, gore vidal, Hamlet, historical fiction, James Joyce, literary criticism, Michael Moorcock, Robert Graves, Salman Rushdie, shakespeare, Steve Donoghue, virginia woolf
May 31, 2011

A Question, an Answer, and a Death

May 31, 2011/ Lianne Habinek

Cinema lore has it that Jean-Luc Godard read only the first and last three pages of King Lear before making his film adaptation. Lianne Habinek suggests this may have helped him get at the play's essence.

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May 31, 2011/ Lianne Habinek/
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Hamlet, Joan of Arc, June 2011, Lianne Habinek, Norman Mailer, virginia woolf
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