The Art of Fiction

The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts by David Lodge

A series of themes that feature in fiction.  Starting with "Beginnings" and ending with "Endings."

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Through Open Doors

Astro City, Volume 9: Through Open Doors by Kurt Busiek

Yet another look at life in a superheroic world.

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the superman employment agency

That Astro City book hit on something I've been wrestling with for a story, but which many treatments of superheroes, even deconstructions, don't hit on:  Crime and crime-fighting are not your only career options.  And that's not even including those who would ignore it.

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ah, dear

So the heroine goes and toddles down the road and happens on the library.

It was intended to give her some contrast with the boisterous, rowdy, overbearing Wolf Hall.

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