What is this? A new Deconstructing the Romance Novel column? I can almost hear you saying with mingled incredulity and alarm. I thought I had learned all there is to know about romance novels and their construction! I’ve done setting! Characters! “Plot”! What else could there possibly be? What more can one novel be expected to hold? Aren’t time-traveling Vikings and female Navy Seals enough?? Darling readers, the short answer is: No.1 I too, was shocked and appalled to come [...]
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Literary Yearbook: Alice in Wonderland
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Book Cover Critique: Whodat?
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Deconstructing the Romance Novel: “Plot” Edition
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Julian and the Art of Personification
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Lessons from the Odyssey: On Being a Good Host and a Better Guest
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The Ryder-Guest Method of Moving In and Never Moving Out
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Book Cover Critique: Whodat?
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Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
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The Long Books No One Will Read Chronicles
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Comic Relief: Supergods
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An Open Letter to Pip from Great Expectations
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An Open Letter to Dr. John Watson, 221B Baker Street
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