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Shirley Hazzard, 1984. (Photo by Robert Pearce / Fairfax Media via Getty Images) What wholeness might contemporary literary fiction aspire to? Heavy plotting is outmoded, if not willfully retrograde. Many novelists avoid omniscience, like inept or unwilling gods. Trusty, plausible narrative structures—the picaresque, say, or the bildungsroman—are approached cautiously, as if they might collapse while one is yet inside. Coherence, difficult enough to find in life, seems even scarcer in the fictive imagination. “The vastness of sensation and experience, of history and knowledge, limits u...

Dan Tackett The mid-1970s brought unimaginable horror and unmasked evil to Lincoln.  It was a time when Russell Smrekar and Michael Drabing became household names, spoken in quiet voices at the dinner table, in angry rants at barber shops and taverns. Smrekar was convicted of the shotgun slayings of a young Lincoln couple in their home. Drabing was sent to prison for the stabbing deaths of a rural Lincoln farm couple and one of their daughters.  People who lived in Logan County at the time undoubtedly still remember their names and the bloody carnage they caused. Mike Harnett, a Lawrence, K...

America Had Plans to Help Russia Invade Japan During World War II The first five Soviet ships arrived from April 10 through 14 bearing more than 2,358 Soviet sailors and their commander, Rear Admiral Boris Popov, a former destroyer officer. They were trained over the subsequent weeks while the U.S. vessels filtered into Cold Bay. Here's What You Need To Remember: The project anticipated the Soviet entry into the war against Japan, and trained Soviet sailors on the use of American ships. As it happened, Soviet assistance was not needed - and owing to the beginning of the Cold War, Moscow wa...

Rainbow City man arrested for using counterfeit money Jay William Maxwell, 45, of Rainbow City, is charged with possession of a forged instrument. (Source: Etowah Co. Sheriff's Office) By WBRC Staff | December 21, 2020 at 1:51 PM CST - Updated December 21 at 1:54 PM ETOWAH COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) - A Rainbow City man was arrested Sunday for using counterfeit money at the Mountain Top flea market. Jay William Maxwell is charged with possession of a forged instrument. He was arrested after buying several items with a counterfeit $100 bill from one of the vendors. Maxwell then moved on to ano...

Juan Rulfo At the center of the story “Remember” by Juan Rulfo is the refrain, "Remember," from the first-person narrator to some listener — a contemporary of his who went to school with him and should be aware of every incident that is recalled, every person named and described, every sad situation unearthed from the moth balls of memory. “Remember,” he says over and again, while himself — as we’ll see — showing evidence that time has blunted the edges of his recall; the vagaries of his mind emerge in details that are by turns vivid or vague. What is certain is that somethin...