John Gardner Archives

by CG FEWSTON October 31, 2018

The Sunlight Dialogues (1972) by John Gardner & the Great American Read

“It was beautiful, sad and unreal, where the sunlight struck. You felt as though life would be different there, the air lighter and cooler, the silence more profound.”

by CG FEWSTON June 8, 2017

Fiction Non-Fiction Pictures

On Becoming a Novelist (1983) by John Gardner and the Art of Fiction

“On some subjects—for instance, writers’ workshops—one is tempted to pull punches or rest satisfied with oversimplified answers; but I’m assuming, as the primary reader of this book, an intensely serious beginning novelist who wants the strict truth (as I perceive it) for his life’s sake, so that he can plan his days of technique, theory, and attitude; and become as quickly and efficiently as possible a master of his craft” (p xxii).

by CG FEWSTON March 23, 2017

Fiction Pictures

Death’s End: Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3 (2010) by Cixin Liu & the End of Humanity and the Universe

“It’s not even accurate to call it the past, for the events related in these pages didn’t occur in the past. The details that have been preserved are already abundant. Sealed in floating bottles, they will hopefully reach the new universe and endure there.”

by CG FEWSTON September 28, 2016

Fiction

The Dark Forest: Remembrance of Earth’s Past #2 (2008/2015) by Cixin Liu & The Future of Humanity

“Suppose a vast number of civilizations are distributed throughout the universe, on the order of the number of detectable stars. Lots and lots of them. Those civilizations make up the body of a cosmic society. Cosmic sociology is the study of the nature of this super-society” (p 12).

by CG FEWSTON June 15, 2016

Fiction Pictures

The Three-Body Problem (2006/2014) by Cixin Liu & the Remembrance of Earth’s Past

“She was intoxicated by her brilliant, crimson dream until a bullet pierced her chest.”

by CG FEWSTON May 31, 2016

Fiction Film Pictures

Norwegian Wood (1987) by Haruki Murakami & the Songs of Seeking Love

“Well, to me, that’s what love is. Not that anyone can understand me, though.”

by CG FEWSTON January 11, 2016

Fiction

Daniel Martin (1977) by John Fowles & the Artist’s Search for True Art

“I create, I am: all the rest is dream, though concrete and executed.”

by CG FEWSTON November 13, 2015

Non-Fiction Pictures

In the Evil Day (2015) by Richard Adams Carey & the Tragedy in Colebrook, America

“It had rained Saturday night, but the rain had dwindled to a stop before dawn, and across the river, above and beyond the belfry and steeple, the green whaleback of Monadnock was wreathed in gossamer wisps of fog.”

by CG FEWSTON October 27, 2015

Non-Fiction Pictures

The Good Luck Cat (2014) by Lissa Warren & the Truth Behind One Woman’s Smile

“And then, on Christmas Eve, a miracle occurred: Ting-Pei Warren, the Judeo-Christian Buddhist cat, high on catnip and tuna water, silently scaled the six-foot spruce while her family sat by the fire, making short work of a pecan-encrusted cheese log. The three of us turned just in time to see her, a silver star atop the highest bough. And just in time to see her lose her balance and take the entire tree down with her.”

by CG FEWSTON October 26, 2015

Fiction

Journey of an American Son (2014) by John Hazen & Ben Albert’s Historical Saga to India

“I want to tell you a story. This story is about the man you’re named after and about the woman who looked after you early in your life and about the man she called her American son.”