Archive - Si Omnia Ficta

A Review in the Shape of a Barbie Catalog

“A Visceral Scroll through the Smokelong Quarterly Barbie Catalog"

Dec 27, 2023 •

On Reading George Gissing’s "New Grub Street" beside the Acropolis

Too much “there” there.....

Dec 21, 2023 •

August 2023

Uneasy Neighbors

Part 1: My father’s memory and my search for story

Aug 28, 2023 •

May 2023

Reading Notes from Woolf’s "To the Lighthouse” and a Resource List from APStogether

“But looking together united them....” TTL, Ch. 2

May 21, 2023 •

On Reading "To the Lighthouse" beside the Ionian Sea

“I am making up To the Lighthouse—the sea is to be heard all through it.”

May 20, 2023 •

April 2023

Anne Carson, Eros, and “Another Bride in Porto"

“When I desire you a part of me is gone...."

Apr 24, 2023 •

The Inimitable Intelligence of Sadness

I didn’t realize A.I., specifically ChatGPT, was so much on my mind until I found myself spontaneously bringing the subject up after I was introduced to…

Apr 12, 2023 •

March 2023

“Women Talking” and “A Mennonite Speaks Out” on Mary Gaitskill’s Out of It

Because I’ve had quite a number of new subscribers these past couple of weeks, I wanted to repost my earlier writing on Women Talking on Mary…

Mar 12, 2023 •

Thoughts on “The End"

of the English major, that is.....

Mar 7, 2023 •

February 2023

Gertrude Stein’s Three Picassos

"Every one was forced by the war which made them understand that things had changed to other things and that they had not stayed the same things, they…

Feb 8, 2023 •

January 2023

Rachel Kushner’s “A King Alone"

“...sincerity can be delivered in a container of camp..."

Jan 26, 2023 •

Coming soon: Si Omnia Ficta

Another blog about books and stories and reading fiction into everything.

Jan 13, 2023 •

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