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If There is a Reason for a Novelist

If there is a reason for the existence for the novelist on earth it is this: to show the element which holds out against God in the highest and noblest characters–the innermost evils and dissimulations; and also to light up the secret source of sanctity in creatures who seem to us to have failed. “God […]

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Harold Bloom on the Future of the Novel

INTERVIEWER: What direction do you see the form taking? BLOOM: I would suppose that in America we are leaning more and more towards terrible millennial visions. I would even expect a religious dimension, a satiric dimension, an even more apocalyptic dimension than we have been accustomed to. I would expect the mode of fantasy to […]

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An excerpt from novel in progress.  Not sure if this will make it.

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