Douglas Nordfors
Douglas Nordfors grew up in Seattle and graduated from Columbia University (BA) and The University of Virginia (MFA). Before going on to teach writing and literature at Milton Academy, The University of Virginia, and for several years at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, he worked at two of the country's most prominent bookstores: The Strand in New York City, and Powell's in Portland, Oregon. He currently lives outside Charlottesville, Virginia. In addition to writing "literary" novels (one, "Jane Davies," is available online), he is a poet whose work has been widely published in journals such as The Iowa Review, Poet Lore, Quarterly West, Poetry Northwest, and The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, and his first poetry book ("Auras," also available online), was published in 2008 with Plain View Press. He has written close to 150 book, theater, and music reviews, and articles, for the alt weekly, C-VILLE Weekly.
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Bernard Malamud's Rich Middle Ground
While Jose Saramago's Blindness and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom go to extremes, the work of Bernard Malamud is equal parts imagination and reality.
Apr 11, 2011
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Elizabeth Smart's Other Neglected Novel
While Canadian writer Elizabeth Smart is justly known, though not as much as she should be, for her first novel, its sequel deserves equal praise.
Apr 7, 2011
- Douglas Nordfors
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For Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet, the Third is a Charm
While the entire The Raj Quartet is a fine work, the third volume, The Towers of Silence, stands alone as one of the great novels of the 20th century.
Apr 5, 2011
- Douglas Nordfors
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Charlton Ogburn and His Hunt For the Real Shakespeare
Charlton Ogburn would have turned 100 this year, and there's no better tribute than revisiting his magnum opus about the "Shakespeare Authorship Question."
Mar 29, 2011
- Douglas Nordfors
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John Fowles: Just What a New Generation of Readers Needs
Some criticisms from Martin Amis and others aside, the novels of famed English writer John Fowles can create a whole new generation of compulsive readers.
Mar 29, 2011
- Douglas Nordfors
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Nicholas Mosley's The Hesperides Tree Turns Youth Wise
In English writer Nicholas Mosley's fifteenth novel, published ten years ago, the narrator is the kind of wise young man the 21st century needs.
Mar 17, 2011
- Douglas Nordfors
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Remembering the Poetry of Steve Orlen
The late Steve Orlen, whose first book was published in 1978, showed how radical experimentation wasn't necessary to produce original poetry.
Mar 15, 2011
- Douglas Nordfors
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Celebrating Frank Kermode's Life Through His Autobiography
Frank Kermode left behind some of the world's greatest works of literary criticism, and also an autobiography that is a classic of the genre.
Mar 15, 2011
- Douglas Nordfors
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How F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack-Up Speaks To Us Today
F. Scott Fitzgerald felt the threat to literature from moving images in a big way, and his concern, expressed in The Crack-Up, has never been more relevant.
Mar 14, 2011
- Douglas Nordfors
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What Every Book Reviewer Should Think About
The responses from 17 critics to Anis Shivani's question in The Huffington Post about how to keep book reviews relevant left something to be desired.
Mar 14, 2011
- Douglas Nordfors
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