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Writing the Unicorn: The Paradox of Historical Fiction
“Luckily Nicolas didn’t have to answer, as he couldn’t have spoken. I had placed my hand on his bulge, which was as hard as a tree branch. I had never touched one before.” It was at that precise point when … Continue reading →
Posted in British History, British Literature, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads, Reviews
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Tagged American History, Anachronistic, atheism, Bill Watterson, Biography, Braveheart, commercial fiction, Creative license, Dumas, Eco, Elizabeth, English history, Epic, Fantasy, feminism, fiction, Fitch, folklore, Follett, Gibbons, Gladiator, Graves, Hagiography, Hayden White, Hilary Mantel, historical accuracy, Historical Epics, Historical Fiction, historical fiction author, Historical novel, Historicity, Historiography, History, Holinshed, Hugo, humanism, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, literary fiction, Mann, Marcus Aurelius, mediaeval, Medieval, Narrativity, novel, Ortega Y. Gassett, period pieces, Phillipa Gregory, poetic license, pulp fiction, Robespierre, Robin Hood, Roland Barthes, Storytelling, The Passion, The Patriot, The Tudors, The Vikings, Thomas Cromwell, Tracey Chevalier, translation, Tudor History, Unicorn, Vidal, William Wallace, Winston Churchill
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‘Jesus Christ, that’s a lot of Novels!’ – A Cross-section of Blasphemetic Fiction
The fictions of Jesus the Christ have become many in number, multiplying like the loaves and the fishes at Bethsaida. In that they were pseudepigraphical accounts and written up two to three centuries after the events depicted, the gospels could … Continue reading →
Posted in American Literature, British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature, Reviews
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Tagged A.J. Langguth, Albert Schweitzer, American fiction, Angela Hunt, Anita Mason, Anthony Burgess, Apocrypha, Astral Plane, Ben Hur, Benito Perez Galdos, Bible, bishop irenaeus, Bishop Ireneus, Blasphemy, British fiction, Bruno Bauer, Buddhism, Channeling, Chris Hill, Chris Moore, Christendom, Christianity, Coptic, coptic gospels, Cyberpunk, D.H. Lawrence, Dan Brown, David Strauss, Dead Sea Scrolls, Decetisicm, Early Church, Ebionite, Elaine Pagels, Eqyptology, Ernest Renan, esoteric, feminism, fiction, Frank Yerby, Friedrich Ghillany, Gabriel Meyer, George Moore, Gerd Theissen, Gerhart Hauptmann, gnostic gospel of thomas, gnosticism, Gore Vidal, Gospel of Thomas, Gospels, Grail, Hagiography, Hebrew, Heresy, Historical Jesus, History, Holy Blood, Hugh Schonfield, infancy gospels, Isis, issus, James Carse, James Morrow, Jeremy Robinson, Jesus Christ, Jim Crace, John, Jose Saramago, Judaism, Karl Barth, Last Temptation of Christ, Lew Wallace, Life of Brian, Liz Green, Luke, Magic, Magick, Marcionism, Mark, Marrianne Fredriksson, Martin Scorsese, Mary Magdalene, Master Jesus, Matthew, Messiah, Michael Baigent, Michael Moorcock, Michele Roberts, Mikhail Bulgakov, Monty Python, Morton Smith, mysticism, mythology, Nag Hammadi, Nazarene, Nikos Katantzakis, Nino Ricci, Norman Mailer, Nostradamus, Novels, Occult, Orthodox, pagan, Par Lagerkvist, Passion Plays, Paul Park, Religion, Richard Muller, Robert Graves, Roman History, Saints, Saviour, Shasaku Endo, Sholem Asch, Simon Magus, Skylight Press, Taylor Caldwell, Testament, Theodore Sturgeon, Theodore Ziolwolski, Theology, Theosophy, Time Travel, Western Mystery Tradition, Wilton Barnhardt, Yeshua, Zoroastrianism
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A Review of Stoning the Devil on The Feminist Wire
The following is a short snippet of Jill Di Donato’s review of Stoning the Devil by Garry Craig Powell, published by The Feminist Wire on April 10, 2013. The full review, entitled Western Novelist Paints a Racy Portrait of Middle Eastern … Continue reading →
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Tagged Arab, Arab culture, Beyonce, Book Review, British fiction, British Literature, British Novel, colonial perspective, Experimental novel, feminism, Feminist, fiction, Frank O'Conor Award, Garry Craig Powell, Gulf, Islam, Jill Di Donato, Lena Dunham, middle eastern culture, middle eastern women, middle-east, Muslim, novel, novel in stories, politics, Sex and violence, Short Stories, Stoning the Devil, The Feminist Wire, UAE, United Arab Emirates, Women
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What Skylight Authors are Reading
It’s always fascinating to see what writers read, where they find sustenance and inspiration for their own work. A few Skylight authors have graciously agreed to let us in on what they are currently reading, whether for guilty pleasure or … Continue reading →
Posted in American Literature, Australian Literature, British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads
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Tagged 13th Century, Alan Richardson, Aldous Huxley, Alex Owen, Allen Mandelbaum, Andre Lebey, Andrew Joron, Andrew Loog Oldham, Anna Lanyon, Antonio Tabucchi, Antony Beevor, Apollinaire, Arthuriad, Arthurian Legends, Aztec, Bachelard, Barbara Pym, Bin Ramke, Bolano, Bombay, books., Borges, Brian Lucas, British Literature, Celtic, Celtic Myth, Cesar Vallejo, China Mieville, Chris Daniels, Chris Hill, Christopher Middleton, Ciaran Carson, Clark Coolidge, conquest of gaul, Creole, Daniel Staniforth, Dante, David Mitchell, Dean Radin, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Dion Fortune, Divine Comedy, Druids, Elaine Pagels, Eleni Stecopoulous, Elizabeth Robinson, Emily Toder, faery, Faery Lore, feminism, French, G. M. Fraser, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Galahad, Gareth Knight, Garry Craig Powell, Gaul, Gawain, George Devine, Gettysburg, Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Gordon Strong, Grail Hallows, Greek Mythology, H.L. Mencken, Hindu, holy grail, Hugh Fox, imminent publication, Indonesia, irish, Jack Collom, Jack Schaeffer, Jeet Thayil, John Matthews, John Sakkis, John Woodhouse, Joseph Noble, julius caesar, Julius Ceasar, Karen Ralls, Kathleen Raine, Kirk Marshall, Laird Hunt, Latin America, Leonora Carrington, Lissa Wolsak, Literature, Longinus, Lucretius, Margaret Randall, Maya, Mayan History, mediaeval, Medieval, Melusine, Mexico, Michael Crichton, Michael D. Coe, Michael Flatt, Michael Ladeen, Michael Palma, Modernism, Moon Magic, Murakami, Murilo Mendez, music, Nicholas Kilmer, Nicholas Rawson, Noah Eli Gordon, Normandi Ellis, Occult, Oscar Lewis, Pablo Neruda, Perceval, Peter Akroyd, Portugal, Pre-Reconstruction, R.J. Stewart, R.S. Loomis, Rebecca Seiferle, Rebecca Wilby, Richard Froude, Ricoeur, Rikki Ducornet, rite of pan, Robert Kloss, Roberto Calasso, Roman, Romance, Rupert Copping, Rushdie, Sam Thompson, Samuel Beckett, Sea Priestess, Seth Landman, Skylight Press, Sonali Deraniyagala, Spanish, SpringGun Press, Steven Johnson, T.A. Jenkins, Taiye Selasi, Templars, Tennyson, Terence McKenna, Thailand, vercingetorix, Victorian, W.A. Nitze, Welsh, William Blake, William Carlos Williams, William Pitt Root, Wings Press, World War Two
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Margaret Randall on Skylight Press
Margaret Randall’s generation yielded up plenty of revolutionary writers, a veritable plethora of wild-eyed subversives loading their free verse and prosaic monologues with anti-authoritarian invectives. But where many are radical on the page, few actually imbue their lives with those … Continue reading →
Posted in New authors, Poetry
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Tagged activism, Albuquerque, American literature, Cuba, environmentalism, feminism, Literature, Mexico, New Mexico, photography, poet, poetry, revolutionary, Sandinistas, Something's Wrong with the Cornfields
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