love — Literature

Wayward Men and the Troubled Women Who Love Them: Love, Death and Relationship Dynamics in Classic and Modern Thrillers

If thrillers are to be believed, falling in love is as dangerous as leaving your front door unlocked, or walking down a dim, dark street at night.

LiteratureA. MartineOctober 13, 2018big little lies, girl on the train, the husband's secret, gone girl, rebecca, behind her eyes, death, extramarital, equality, affair, guilt, haunting, literature, love, marriage, murder, novel, consent, relationships, truth, writing, dysfunctionComment

On Guilt and Grief: the Ghost Story Revisited in Beloved and The Wavemaker Falters

I learned, in real life and in stories, that grief is more powerful than outright horror, that guilt is more haunting than ghosts, and that there are worse things than death.

LiteratureA. MartineJanuary 11, 2018morrison, beloved, saunders, depression, ghost story, disillusionment, detachment, relationships, love, affair, extramarital, haunting, grief, guilt, shame, death, murder

Extramarital Affairs, Alien Invasions and the Afterlife: Strangeness and Heartbreak in Kevin Brockmeier’s The Ceiling

The parallel analyses of magical realism is one of the most freeing elements — from the perspective of a reader as well as a writer — because it allows for looser writing, narratives and characterization

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