Tag: ghost story

• Deconstruction and Ghosts

  Literary Kicks’ Levi Asher says, “I’ve spent a week surfing his works and reading the exciting biography Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters (as recommended to me by a commenter to last weekend’s Derrida post). I now realize how ridiculous it is that I’ve never studied Derrida or the other deconstructionists and poststructuralists before, since they cover many of…

  Bill Ectric

  February 25, 2013

  Benoît Peeters, deconstruction, ghost story, Jacques Derrida, levi asher, psychology, supernatural

• The Latch, A Ghost Story by Mikey Georgeson

  I’m happy to have Mikey Georgeson back at Bill Ectric’s Place. Last time he was here we spoke mainly about music. This time I would like to present a short story that demonstrates Mikey’s ability to plunge into commonplace waters and surface with an uncanny pearl. The Latch – A Ghost Story bu Mikey Georgeson So…

  Bill Ectric

  December 30, 2011

  ghost story, Mikey Georgeson, short stories, The Latch

• Connections

  I often write about the exhilaration I feel when one good book leads to another and another. After reading and enjoying Ticket to Minto, I interviewed the author, Sohrab Homi Fracis. He mentioned that he was pitching his novel-in-progress as “Jack Kerouac’s On the Road meets Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake.”  This piqued my interest in The Namesake. I picked it…

  Bill Ectric

  September 28, 2011

  ghost story, Gogol, Jhumpa Lahiri, Nikolai Gogal, satire, Sohrab Homi Fracis, The Namesake, The Overcoat, Ticket To Minto, Vladimir Nabokov, writers