Archive - Don Nordberg (is/on) writing

Prizes – is the literary world upside down?

I’ve submitted a manuscript for a literary prize competition, one that only accepts as-yet unpublished work.

Jun 20 •

A Whole Life, in a few words: Robert Seethaler

Somewhere I came across a reference to the Austrian novelist Robert Seethaler.

Jun 13 •

May 2025

Held hostage and living it twice through ‘De Dag’ (‘The Day’)

Hostage situations have a built-in dynamic for tension.

May 9 •

April 2025

Looking for ‘The One That Got Away’ (‘Cleddau’)

In our household, we’ve watched a few television dramas about serial killers.

Apr 25 •

Everett’s James, in conversation with philosophers

As a kid, surely, I must have read Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I must have encountered it again in studying American literature at…

Apr 11 •

Tell Me Everything – more than I wanted to know, and then some

Elizabeth Strout’s 2024 novel builds on the characters and setting of her earlier works, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge (2008).

Apr 4 •

March 2025

Where have all the men gone?

Are writers – through their contributions to popular culture – responsible for what seems to be a recent and growing divide between men and women?

Mar 28 •

February 2025

‘Unforgotten’ – a struggle between law and justice (Season 6)

The world of crime fiction – on screen and page – revolves around two central themes: How do we know what’s true, and how can we achieve justice?

Feb 14 •

Old God’s Time – finally – comes

We’re familiar with the conventions of detective fiction.

Feb 2 •

January 2025

Modern music – what are we afraid of?

It was a Christmas present from a dear friend: an updated edition of a 2009 book by David Stubbs called Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko but Don’t…

Jan 3 •

December 2024

Is Santa Claus coming to town? Is that a lie?

It’s Christmas time again, and the children’s books we’ve kept for the next generation of kids have found their way back to the top of the pile, into…

Dec 6, 2024 •

November 2024

What’s the problem with male coppers?

It may have been an accident of scheduling.

Nov 15, 2024

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