In the coming weeks, our blog will be restored. Stay tuned for an interview with Carter Ratcliff, book reviews, and incisive commentary by Austin, our blogger-in-chief. The Abbeville blog has MOVED! You can now read this post here. Lit Fans Bid U Adieu. The Abbeville blog has MOVED! You can now read this post here. Tagged as denis dutton art instinct.

The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to. Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind. The Battlefield Where The Girls Say I Love You.

Monday, March 16, 2015. The Haunting of Sunshine Girl. Of the first book in the series, bestselling author R.

Saturday, March 31, 2012. Toni Morrison on the Origins of American Racism. In her 2008 novel A Mercy. Toni Morrison imagines a frontier Virginia of the late 1600s, a century before the American Revolution. She has found in this time and place valuable insights into the relationship between slavery and race, a relationship that is taken for granted but that is after all contingent.

When Rerouting Leads to Unanticipated Reading Obsession. Those wonderful moments when a book sends you off in unexpected new reading directions.

A more persuasive viewpoint is to see that Welles was a typical conceptual innovator, achieving his greatest work at a young age, then declining in accomplishments through the rest of his life.

The view from my irony tower. The mom who writes and bites. The chip off the old block. Former Armed Forces Chief of Staff and Secretary of Defense General Angelo Reyes shot himself. In the chest earlier today. Who plunged to his death by jumping off a cliff near his home in 2009.