Huck Finn – Michael A. Kahn

Jay Gatsby and Notorious B.I.G.: A Match Made in Baseball Heaven

Posted on May 8, 2021May 10, 2021 by Michael Kahn

Ah, baseball season has arrived! And with it, the joy of the walk-up song. For the true baseball fans among us, name a favorite player and you can name his walk-up song. Same for your team’s closer (whose walk-up song is known as the “entrance song”). Including even those greats who’ve retired. What Yankees fan, when…

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Bromance: My Favorite Fictional Couple

Posted on February 10, 2017February 10, 2017 by Michael Kahn

I recently received a question on the Goodreads website asking who was my favorite fictional couple, and why. My first reaction was to flip through all of the literary lovers I’d encountered over the years–a list that includes: Romeo & Juliet; Elizabeth Bennett & Mr. Darcy; Lancelot & Guinevere; Odysseus & Penelope; Scarlett O’Hara &…

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My Favorite Narrators (Part 5 of 5)

Posted on November 11, 2013November 16, 2013 by Michael Kahn

So here I am, finally, down to the last of my 5 favorite narrators. Back when I started this list with Huck Finn, I had no idea who the other four would be. And now that I’ve reached my last one, I’ve been sifting wildly through the remaining possibilities. The prior four have all been…

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Who Tells the Story? My 5 Favorite Narrators in Literature (Part 1)

Posted on October 5, 2013October 5, 2013 by Michael Kahn

I came across a fun piece in Publishers Weekly by the author Antoine Wilson entitled “The 10 Best Narrators in Literature.” As he explains, the range of fictional narrators goes from the World Swallower to the Unreliable Narrator. The World Swallower is “the unhinged cousin of the old-school omniscient author-narrator (the one who used to…

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