Author: Jonathan Kieran
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Keep Them Secret, Keep Them SAFE
Trader Joe’s Cashel Bleu Cheese Irish Potato Chips. DON’T TELL. 🤫 If you see another customer going for a bag, point in a different direction, say, “Oh my gosh! A WILDEBEAST in the store!” … then grab ALL the chips…
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Only the Toad Can Tell
What’s the difference between a fairy tale, a fable, and an allegory? It just might be a ravenous toad living under an oak. But check out Guillermo Del Toro’s achingly wondrous classic, PAN’S LABYRINTH, to get a potential look at…
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Tolkien on Escape …
Tolkien’s glimpse into the escapist value of literature was never more acute: “I do not accept the tone of scorn with which ‘escape’ is now so often used. Why should you be scorned if, finding yourself captive, you try to…
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Noomi Rapace Steps In and Out of a Fairy Tale with Dark Allure
Folklore and fairy tale enchantment meet with powerful effect in YOU WON’T BE ALONE, one of the most haunting films I have seen in recent times. Filmed by an international consortium of creative teams in Macedonia, this artful story unfolds…
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Speaking of Myths and Legends
Amazon Prime is currently showcasing series adaptations of two epics: MERLIN + THE ODYSSEY. Both productions hail from the late 1990s and feature all-star casts. The first is charming, the other is quite silly. Highlights and lowlights: The incandescent Isabella…
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The Whimsical Science of Pseudonyms
Keep your ears open, writers who are pondering a nom de plume for their literary offerings. Ideas can come from unexpected and even whimsical sources. The great Samuel Langhorne Clemons, for example, was once a steamboat captain on the mighty…
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Little Teases, Lots of Work
Visitors will note that the look of the official site is in the throes of considerable change, but a teaser is provided amid the ongoing work—the cover of my upcoming March 2025 novel, THE WEDNESDAY BOX (Treehouse Ladder Press), can…
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Sit Tight! New Look On the Way
With a new book on the way in 2025 (and two more to follow in 2026 and 2027, respectively) the site will be rebuilt, refurbished, and renovated for posterity in the next few weeks. Tweakings. Fiddlings. Razzle-dazzlings. Bear with us—the…
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Marvelous Mischief Afoot
With a new book on the way in 2025 (and two more to follow in 2026 and 2027, respectively) the site will be rebuilt, refurbished, and renovated for posterity in the next few weeks. Tweakings. Fiddlings. Razzle-dazzlings. Bear with us—the…
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Literature and Other Emanations in 2024
Book Riot has summed-up the state of affairs. Have a look. —————— [ A new novel by Jonathan Kieran is slated for major international release in March 2025 so brace yourselves and think of England. This stuff is built for…
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