@ Uncouth Reflections
UR Elsewhere
- Our NSFW Tumblr blog
-
Recent Posts
- The Art of the Opening Title: The Americans, Season 4
- Juxtaposin’: Italian Midlife Crisis Death
- Movie Du Jour: “Cluny Brown” (1946)
- Architecture and Color
- Quote Du Jour: This Is Your Captain Speaking
- A Selfish Mode of Gratification
- Juxtaposin’: Wisdom Literature
- Couldn’t Do It Today: “Sweet Deceptions” (1960)
- “The Mountain Cat”
- Lessons from Across the Pond?
Recent Comments
- The Art of the Opening Title: The Americans, Season 4 | Uncouth Reflections on The Art of the Opening Title: True Detective, Season 1
- Blowhard, Esq. on Does Jared Diamond Really Mean What He Says?
- Movie Du Jour: “Cluny Brown” (1946) | Uncouth Reflections on “The Mountain Cat”
- JV on Does Jared Diamond Really Mean What He Says?
- JV on Does Jared Diamond Really Mean What He Says?
- JV on Quote Du Jour: This Is Your Captain Speaking
- Will S. on Architecture and Color
- jjbees on A Selfish Mode of Gratification
- cootie on Does Jared Diamond Really Mean What He Says?
- Glengarry on Juxtaposin’: Wisdom Literature
- Fabrizio del Wrongo on Couldn’t Do It Today: “Sweet Deceptions” (1960)
- Portlander on Architecture Du Jour
- Portlander on Architecture Du Jour
- JV on Linkage
- JV on Linkage
Tag Archives: genre fiction
Edgar Rice Burroughs Writes to Forrest Ackerman
Blowhard, Esq. writes:
Quote Du Jour: “Fuck the Prose”
Blowhard, Esq. writes: A lot of my students just can’t tell a story. They can write sentences but they don’t know how to make a story go from there all the way through to the end without people dying of … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing
Tagged creative writing, genre fiction, Hanif Kureishi, literary fiction, MFA
2 Comments
Quote of the Day
Blowhard, Esq. writes: God bless the straightforward writer, and God bless those with the ability to amuse, provoke, surprise, shock, appall. The purpose of literature is to Delight. To create or endorse the Scholastic is a craven desire. It may … Continue reading
“Flashman”
Blowhard, Esq. writes: I just finished the first volume of George MacDonald Fraser‘s high-spirited and rollicking The Flashman Papers series. For those new to the books, the series of 19th century historical novels chronicles the exploits of an English army officer and self-described … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing
Tagged 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Afghanistan, Allan Quartermain, alternative literary history, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aubrey-Maturin, boys' own adventures, Brigadier Gerard, British Empire, C.S. Forester, Don Quixote, Douglas Adams, East India Company, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Edward Said, Feminism, Flashman, Game, genre fiction, George MacDonald Fraser, H.R. Haggard, historical fiction, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Horatio Hornblower, Ian Fleming, India, indigenous warlords, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Bond, James Ellroy, Joseph Conrad, Kabul, Lord of the Rings, men's fiction, n-word, Orientalism, P.G. Wodehouse, Patrick O'Brian, Professor Challenger, public doman, publishing, Robinson Crusoe, sexy native girls, Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan
28 Comments
Michael Chabon Likes Genre Fiction, Punts on Endorsing It
Blowhard, Esq. writes: In a recent NYT interview of Michael Chabon for the Book section, the following exchange took place: You can suggest three books to a literary snob who believes genre fiction has no merit. What’s on the list? … Continue reading
Blowhard, Esq.
Callowman
Sherbrooke
Eddie Pensier
Enzo Nakamura
Epaminondas
Fabrizio del Wrongo
Fenster
Brundle Guy
Glynn Marshes
Paleo Retiree
Atypical Neurotic
Question Lady
Sax von Stroheim
Sir Barken Hyena
The Mistaken