Brilliant Disguises

A Christian look at contemporary and classic literary fiction and culture

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

A Requiem for Logan Roy

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Logan Roy's entrance into the second episode of "Succession" begins with a question: "Why does everybody ask how I'm ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

In Search of Lost Eternities: Proust and the Life to Come

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  Toward the end of “Within a Budding Grove,” Marcel Proust’s second volume of “In Search of Lost Time,” his narrator speeds toward a hushed...
Friday, September 9, 2022

The opening bars of E.L. Doctorow's 'Ragtime'

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  E.L. Doctorow establishes the tone of his landmark 1974 novel "Ragtime" from the opening preamble - a rambling, eight-page openi...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Salman Rushdie: The Laughing Exile

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  "This is what he thought: I'm a dead man. He wondered how many days he had left to live and thought the answer was probably a s...
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I'm a reporter with the Birmingham (Ala.) News and the Alabama Media Group. You can read my reporting at al.com. I'm a Southern Baptist deacon and the author of "Set Your Fields on Fire" - http://www.amazon.com/your-fields-fire-William-Thornton/dp/1512721964/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452519478&sr=1-1&keywords=set+your+fields+on+fire+william+thornton. You would profit from buying and reading it, you know? I know I would. Email me at wthorn7@hotmail.com if you'd like.
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