The Middling Place
Sabrina Nesbitt | PhD student, Simon Haisell, emilyYour comprehensive guide to the novel—great books, literary history, narrative craft, and the art of reading.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 53 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 20 days ago |
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The Reading Habit That Changed How I Understand Books
I picked up my old copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray recently. The dark brown paperback is so scuffed that the edges are more a taupe color now. The pages are water-warped from a rainy day in California long ago and make that crinkling sou...
Life by Time: Realism and the Birth of the Novel
Architecture of the Novel 4.2: The Early English Novel
Just in case you missed it, my name is Sabrina, and I run The Middling Place: your one-stop shop for all things about the novel—history, theory, techniques, close reading, an occasiona...
So, What is a Novel? From Homer to Cervantes
Architecture of the Novel 4.1: Where we get into theory & what existed before the modern conception of the novel
Georg Lukács famously defined the novel as “the epic of a world that has been abandoned by God.”
A Surprisingly Simple Way to Remember Everything You Read
And the entire studying process too
As I type this, I’m sitting on the patio of Pedaler’s Fork in Calabasas, California. The smell of jasmine is creeping in with the crisp breeze, and, thankfully, I’m being warmed by a large space heater h...
From Clues to Chaos: The Evolution of Detective Fiction, Poe to Present Day
Poe to Present Day
My name is Sabrina, and I run The Middling Place: A space for you and me to practice the art of close reading within context so that we can, hopefully, closely read our world.
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