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Mark's Contemporary Literature Blog July 2007 Archive

By Mark Flanagan, About.com Guide to Contemporary Literature since 2003

Hallows or Horcruxes?

Tuesday July 31, 2007
It is a darker landscape since Voldemort's return to power and Dumbledore's subsequent demise at the wand of Severus Snape; many of Voldemort's followers have been released from Azkaban as ... Read More

Exposure by Kurt Wenzel

Monday July 30, 2007
"In this sometimes bizarre look into the future, Kurt Wenzel seems to be telling us that he has something against society's commercialization, the Hollywood system, media advertising overload..." Read more about ... Read More

Storynory : Audio Stories for Kids

Thursday July 26, 2007
Storynory is a fantastic site from which to grab audio books (stories) for kids. They've been publishing an audio story a week since November 2005 and have over 75 ... Read More

Body Surfing by Anita Shreve

Sunday July 22, 2007
At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing once again, she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage ... Read More

Allen Ginsberg Redux

Tuesday July 17, 2007
Filmmaker Jerry Aronson met Allen Ginsberg in Chicago at the 1968 Democratic Convention protests and then later in Boulder, Colorado where each of the men had relocated in the early ... Read More

Dead Connection by Alafair Burke

Monday July 16, 2007
In Alafair Burke's thriller Dead Connection a rookie detective goes undercover on the Internet dating scene to draw out a serial killer targeting single women in Manhattan. Review of Dead Connection ... Read More

Growing Up With Harry Potter

Thursday July 12, 2007
As we enter the final week before eager readers lay their hands on the last book in the Harry Potter series, The Guardian Unlimited has a great article entitled, The ... Read More

I Heard That Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark

Sunday July 8, 2007
In the psychological thriller I Heard That Song Before Mary Higgins Clark takes the reader deep into the mysteries of the human mind, where memories may be the most dangerous ... Read More

The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell

Wednesday July 4, 2007
In The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell, known for her journalistic contributions to PRI's This American Life, travels through the American past and in doing so investigates the roads of ... Read More

Fiona Sampson at The Guardian's Poetry Workshop

Monday July 2, 2007
The Guardian's Poetry Workshop for July features award-winning British poet Fiona Sampson with an exercies on listening to poetry: "In short, listening is a way of paying attention which notices one ... Read More

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