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Graham Greene liked to poke at things, often to the detriment of those who took him or his characters at face value. Brighton Rock , a 1930s-set book written to be easily adaptable (which it later was), is one of those prodding works. The story centers around a sociopathic teenage gangster named Pinkie who is vying for control of Brighton's underworld after his mentor Kite is murdered . The plot follows his violent rise to power, his deceitful marriage to a young waitress nam

Writing is a complicated business . It cannot purely be thought of in such rigid terms as structure, theme, narrative, or character. These are terms describing what writing forms if  done well, but these are not what writing itself is and they do little to illuminate the process.  In its incipient stage, the process of writing for me is a dull endeavor. There is just not enough in my head that stirs the energy required to take on any serious commitment. One idea emerges, only

Thomas Hardy viscerally drags us through Victorian class struggle and the cross of an earnest, but gullible man One may have some familiarity with Thomas Hardy and his best-known work “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” which was published in 1891. Hardy, a British author and poet from Dorset, known for his rich prose, fatalist and comedic themes, firmly cements himself as one of England’s finest writers, offering a rich window into the pitfalls and—ultimately—the senselessness of in