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Wild Wild West.

July 14, 2022

Tychy has had some writing about Roughing It by Mark Twain queued up for some time now. This image should …

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Storytelling in Washington Irving’s Tales of a Traveller.

April 12, 2022

I had worked through American literature at university, in chronological order, and such was the rush to get to Edgar …

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Book Review: Mahomet and His Successors.

December 21, 2021

What is the significance of Washington Irving’s combined biography and historical epic Mahomet and His Successors (1849-)? Today it is …

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the Tall Tale.

March 24, 2021

As the USA rolled westwards, the tall tale, a species of folk mischief, had emerged as the acutest cultural expression …

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On the Motif of Hell in Ernest Hemingway’s Islands in the Stream.

October 14, 2020

[The following contains spoilers.] Has Thomas Hudson, the hero of Ernest Hemingway’s posthumously-published novel Islands in the Stream (1970), been …

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On Autobiography in Ernest Hemingway’s Islands in the Stream.

September 3, 2020

[The following contains spoilers.] Ernest Hemingway had started writing the text that would become Islands in the Stream in 1946. …

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Book Review: Catch-22.

May 24, 2020

For many people, the COVID-19 pandemic will make death come alive again. With the escalating fatalities and the decimation of …

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World War Correspondents: Tietjens, Crouchback and Yossarian.

May 23, 2020

[When I began researching “World War Correspondents” in 2013, it was with the intention of writing a series of articles …

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The Death of Kid Sampson (Illustration to Catch-22).

May 20, 2020

I have a couple of big posts queued up about Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961). One is an article about “Great …

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Christmas with Washington Irving.

December 22, 2019

Today the Christmas material in Washington Irving’s The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819-20) encompasses a jovial and expansive midsection …

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What does Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina mean?

September 20, 2018

[The following contains spoilers.] I never read graphic novels – there is enough on my plate already! – but I …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: The Death of Edgar Allan Poe.

August 20, 2018

It is a typical afternoon at the Edinburgh Fringe. I go to the Summerhall to check out the new play …

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Wanderers They Knew Not Where (49).

January 30, 2018

As she knelt down, the border of her garment was dipped into the pool; she laid her forehead on the …

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Wanderers They Knew Not Where (48).

January 3, 2018

“Come, my bride!” said those pale lips, “the hearse is ready. The sexton stands waiting for us at the door …

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Wanderers They Knew Not Where (47).

December 1, 2017

Had a wanderer, bewildered in the melancholy forest, heard their mirth, and stolen a half-affrighted glance, he might have fancied …

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