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Geoffrey Gates
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Lakkos Artists Residency (Crete, Greece)
Left to right: Mural by Japanese artist Silsil; Minoan artefact;
Residency courtyard.
Writing to you from Heraklion, Greece. Let’s help you to picture this: Heraklion (Iraklio) is a city of about 140,000, on the island of Crete, midway between Greece and Turkey. If you picture the Mediterranean Sea (a word I can n
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This is a rich text and its serious themes are handled with the light touch of a writer who knows what it means to have survived a dictatorship. My thoughts here:
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Iris and Floyd are children of convicts – adult orphans, nomadic and symbiotic twins. Just who would be interested in them is another question, castoffs as they are. (Thoughts on Robbie Arnott’s “Dusk”). https://gatesyread.blogspot.com/2026/04/ ...more |
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How to talk about Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (1866) when the plot is complicated, the ideas complex, and so much has been said already? https://gatesyread.blogspot.com/2026/... ...more |
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The Plains was once described by Ben Lerner as a ‘strange Australian masterpiece’, a novel that ‘can feel less like something you’ve read than something you’ve dreamed’ (The New Yorker, 29 March 2017). Here’s my thoughts. http://gatesyread.blogspot.c ...more |
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My thoughts on #PaulAuster's 1990 novel #TheMusicofChance: something absurd in contemporary American life must have been foreseen in Auster’s terrible fables like this one. https://gatesyread.blogspot.com/2025/... ...more |
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| It takes a certain skill to write a historical novel that feels present. And it takes craft and heart to make the story of one man’s life feel so important – not as representative of anything, but so that the reader can experience vicariously the tri ...more | |
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