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I am a fiction writer as well as reviewer. I write for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Seattle Post Intelligencer, PopMatters, Blogcritics, and worked as the Books Editor for Monsters and Critics. I also co-founded Cosmoetica.Com, the most read non-commercial arts site.

And if that isn't enough, I also work as the Austin Cultural Events Examiner and I am a Channel Manager for International literature. I have a love for Japanese literature and film, though not just limited to that.

I read as often as I can and regularly write book reviews. I have found the people at Helium both friendly and nice and that it offers a great place for me to archive my literary thoughts.

I hope some of my reviews persuade readers to seek out many of these fine works.

My passion is ...

ideas

I know too much about ...

nothing

My parents always told me ...

eat your veggies

My childhood ambition ...

marine biologist

My favorite memory ...

the one I've forgotten

Why I write ...

because

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

my cats' meowing

My first job ...

babysitter

My best moment ...

too many

My inspiration ...

me

Arts & Humanities > International Writers & Literature Book reviews: The Silent Cry, by Kenzaburo Oe

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The Silent Cry is a novel with not the best title. At least in the English translation, that is, for were I to just encounter this title without the Nobel winning stamp upon it, I would have quickly passed over it. That said, it is still not a good title, Nobel winner or not. This sort of reminds me of Hungarian writer Sandor Marai’s great novel Embers, which doesn’t have the best translation of title either, but Embers is better than The Silent Cry—both in title and in book. The title actually puts me in mind of that anti-abortion propaganda film I was forced to watch my...

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