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Impressions of Laura VanArendonk Baugh’s Traditional Japanese Novella Kitsune-Tsuki
Another American author featured as a speaker at the recent virtual World Fantasy Con 2020 is Laura VanArendonk Baugh, and when I saw she had a few books set in Japan, I was intrigued since I love the East Asian fox myth and have written some far less traditional books featuring them myself. The first […]
The Life and Works of Korean Author Kim Dongni
This year on my main blog, the Ice Pine Palace (see links in the left column here for my affiliate blogs), my Literati Corner selection will be a novella and short stories by a very famous Korean author. Kim Dongni (김동리金東里) was born in 1913 in the historical city of Gyeongju in North Gyeongsang Province, […]
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The Life and Works of Korean Author Kim Dongni
This year on my main blog, the Ice Pine Palace (see links in the right column here for my affiliate blogs), my Literati Corner selection will be a novella and short stories by a very famous Korean author. Kim Dongni (김동리金東里) was born in 1913 in the historical city of Gyeongju in North Gyeongsang Province, […]
Sohyeon After Midnight Book Reading Videos and Character Roll-Call
I had some time this weekend to prepare a few videos for everyone to enjoy. The first video is my character roll-call, which I made for my readers who have been struggling to pronounce my characters’ names in a couple of my novels. Character Roll-Call: Then I prepared a three-part series of me reading selections […]
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Monthly Archives: November 2013
“Child’s Play” and Other Notes – Ichiyō Higuchi, Part 4
In this final installment of the series on Ichiyō Higuchi, the first story we will look at is “The Thirteenth Night,” (十三夜) which was published in 1895 and has two sections. This story begins with dutiful daughter Oseki contemplating how … Continue reading
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“Encounters on a Dark Night” and Other Notes – Ichiyō Higuchi, Part 3
The next story I want to look at is “Encounters on a Dark Night” (暗夜), which was published in 1894 as a gothic-themed take on Higuchi’s “waif literature” that “explores her own rancor toward the business partners who swindled her … Continue reading
