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Tag: poetry

  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

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    Rodney Nelsestuen
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    (Note: Dillard, who died September 15, 2026, published Pilgrim – set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia – in 1975 and won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. I first read it within the next couple of years. As full admission, this discussion leaves so much out that I encourage you to read the…

  • Ian McEwan’s 2025 Novel: What We Can Know

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    Rodney Nelsestuen
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    This novel is described by some as “immersive.” No argument there. But this book is likely going to appeal to a reader of a certain age, (I mean older) and certainly one who reads a lot. The plot centers around Tom and Rose, two academics in what is left of the UK, in 2119. Tom…

  • The Epic of Gilgamesh

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    Rodney Nelsestuen
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    I recently read The Epic of Gilgamesh, a story that predates Homer by 1500 years or more (Intro by NK Sandars in the Penguin Classics edition copyrighted 1972). The story was most likely a composite of decades, if not centuries, of oral storytelling which was finally written down (probably) first in Sumerian Cuneiform. Tablets were…