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Another Essayist.

16-Aug-11

restrainedly Reading Brian Jay Stanley I feel I hear a kindred voice – particularly kindred to my writing in the Staten Island book.  Sounds like he knows some Latin, or at the very least reads Burton and Montaigne and Irving and Browne.  Stanley’s cast of mind sounds a bit more modern to me, a shade more […]

Pushkin’s Tales of Belkin.

22-Jan-10

http://debashishbanerji.com/category/books/ When the snow is heaped up high all around your doorway – when the stars twinkle devilishly in the frigid air – when your friends are far away, and the peacefulness of a winter’s evening is all your own – what better pleasure is there than to lay back in an old recliner, face your […]