Tag: Sherlock Holmes

Bromance: My Favorite Fictional Couple

Posted on 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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Baseball Walk-Up Songs for Mystery Detectives

Posted on by Michael Kahn
Time for my annual baseball post. Last year I wrote one on the Top 10 Baseball Walk-Up Songs in Literature. For the uninitiated, a walk-up song is that hard rock, hip hop, or country tune that blares over the speakers throughout the stadium as the ballplayer walks from the on-deck circle to the batter’s box. True…
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From Sherlock Holmes to Stanley Plotkin to Rachel Gold

Posted on by Michael Kahn
For those of us who love to read novels, the Word Nerds blog is a true delight, despite its intriguingly strange name. But as the blog’s motto announces: “No pocket protectors here; just don’t break the spines on the books.” Thus I was flattered when they asked me to write a guest blog post in…
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Untold Tales of Wild and Crazy Love

Posted on by Michael Kahn
Love stories have generated mountains of literary analysis over the years. From Tristan & Isolde to Romeo & Juliet to Elizabeth Bennett & Mr. Darcy to Anastasia Steel & Christian Grey, the ins-and-outs (pun sort of intended) of the amorous relationships between fictional characters have been probed  (guilty again) from every angle (ok, enough) by scholars…
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