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  • I think Red Moon and Black Mountain got published in the late 1960s and the first Katherine Kurtz Deryini book--but again, my point wasn't that there was no comtemporarily-written booklength fantasy being written, but there it was rare compared to SF.

    Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010

  • And I think of some the essays and booklength works of nonfiction by writers such as Larry McMurtry or the wonderfully lyrical Diane Ackerman and those writers rely heavily on mixes of scene and exposition.

    2009 November 06 « Exile on Ninth Street 2009

  • And I think of some the essays and booklength works of nonfiction by writers such as Larry McMurtry or the wonderfully lyrical Diane Ackerman and those writers rely heavily on mixes of scene and exposition.

    Scene v. Exposition « Exile on Ninth Street 2009

  • For this reason I would place Paul Theroux among the masters of the genre, though his stuff is generally booklength.

    Literary Nonfiction Bleg 2007

  • And I think of some the essays and booklength works of nonfiction by writers such as Larry McMurtry or the wonderfully lyrical Diane Ackerman and those writers rely heavily on mixes of scene and exposition.

    2009 November « Exile on Ninth Street 2009

  • This booklength essay pitilessly records its author's twinges of envy and mines his own inner life to examine the psychological minutiae of reading, writing and remembering.

    A 'Thing' About Updike Stalking A Literary Lion 2008

  • I recently wrote a booklength fantasy epic poem called The SkyPath Crusade, which some of my friends claim is space opera.

    The New Space Opera, part 2 adamosf 2007

  • In 1990 I wanted something more robust to write something of booklength.

    Tales of Horror From Years Gone By « Whatever 2006

  • In the latest issue of that magazine, Hitchens has dubbed my thesis about George W. Bush being a dry drunk -- a thesis I've since expanded into a booklength manuscript with Katherine Van Wormer, Ph.

    Archive 2004-08-01 2004

  • This essay, which has without question been the single most influential statement on ekphrasis in American criticism, has now been incorporated by Krieger into a booklength study,

    Notes, Mitchell, "Ekphrasis and the Other" 1997

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