Browsing the blog archives for May, 2012

Dialogue: an appreciation

I reread two very different books this past week. The first was Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men, the bleak and gritty neo-Western that the Coen Brothers adapted quite faithfully into a Best-Picture-winning film back in 2007. The other, perhaps a little tamer, was Evil Under the Sun, by Agatha Christie. It’s not her […]

Six Sentence Sunday #6

Cheating a little; this is actually seven sentences. I blame Angela Goff. Voices drifted over the garden wall from the colonnade on the other side, traveling well enough on the cool, crisp night air that I could catch snatches of the conversation, and then, as the speakers drew slowly closer, the full exchange. “I’ve arranged […]