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Author Archive

2007

• In Search of Beowulf (12 comments) by Michael Norris on December 4, 2007

2008

• With Rimbaud In Hell (3 comments) by Michael Norris on January 30, 2008
• A Drink of Absinthe (8 comments) by Michael Norris on February 14, 2008
• Capitaine Achab (5 comments) by Michael Norris on March 17, 2008
• Berlin: Lou Reed’s Dark Poetry (12 comments) by Michael Norris on April 28, 2008
• Les Soixante-Huitards (16 comments) by Michael Norris on May 14, 2008
• Unto this Last: John Ruskin's Economic and Political Writings (9 comments) by Michael Norris on September 1, 2008
• Francoise Sagan: Sex, Drugs and Literature (8 comments) by Michael Norris on November 14, 2008

2009

• The Scroll In Chicago (10 comments) by Michael Norris on January 14, 2009
• Gershwin and Heyward's Porgy and Bess (4 comments) by Michael Norris on February 12, 2009
• Reading Infinite Jest (9 comments) by Michael Norris on April 9, 2009
• From Concept to Final Cut: An Interview with MT Cozzola (2 comments) by Michael Norris on May 12, 2009
• Marcel Proust: Beyond the Madeleines (19 comments) by Michael Norris on June 16, 2009
• Guest-Reviewing the Review: August 16 2009 (2 comments) by Michael Norris on August 16, 2009
• Pondering Proust II (8 comments) by Michael Norris on September 8, 2009
• Telling Our Stories: An Interview With Arlene Malinowski (1 comment) by Michael Norris on October 20, 2009
• Pondering Proust III: Guermantes Way (1 comment) by Michael Norris on November 16, 2009

2010

• Pondering Proust IIIb: More On Guermantes Way (3 comments) by Michael Norris on February 9, 2010
• Pondering Proust IV: Sodome et Gommorhe, or Cities of the Plain (5 comments) by Michael Norris on March 28, 2010
• Interlude: The Proustian Obsession (3 comments) by Michael Norris on May 26, 2010
• Pondering Proust V: The Prisoner (3 comments) by Michael Norris on August 4, 2010
• Pondering Proust VI: The Fugitive (3 comments) by Michael Norris on September 14, 2010
• Pondering Proust VII: Time Regained (5 comments) by Michael Norris on October 18, 2010
• Proust's Lost Time: Beyond The Madeleines (3 comments) by Michael Norris on December 13, 2010
• Vision in Combray: Proust Beyond the Madeleines Concluded (12 comments) by Michael Norris on December 13, 2010

2011

• The Absurd Life of the Criminal (6 comments) by Michael Norris on January 26, 2011
• Lowry's Mexico: Under The Volcano (8 comments) by Michael Norris on April 21, 2011
• The Pale King: David Foster Wallace's Adieu (7 comments) by Michael Norris on June 9, 2011
• Raymond Chandler and the Blue Dahlia Gambit (4 comments) by Michael Norris on September 20, 2011
• Departed: George Whitman and Vaclav Havel (4 comments) by Michael Norris on December 19, 2011

2012

• Francois Villon, Poete Maudit (13 comments) by Michael Norris on March 26, 2012

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