Michael Pritchett | Midwest Fiction Writer

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The Fall of the Roman Empire Pt 1 - The Falling — Michael Pritchett Hello Dear Reader, It's inauguration time, so this is part 1 of 3 and we'll be talking the fall of the Roman empire.  I know these pages are usually devoted to fiction and novelists, and the subject ...

Part 3 of my deep dive into the Fall of the Roman Empire goes out this week. Catch up with Part 1 + Part 2 on my site:
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The Fall of the Roman Empire Pt 2 — Michael Pritchett In this second part of three on the decline and fall of Rome, based on a reading of the Penguin Classic The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( Abridged Edition, by Edward Gibbon, ed. David Womersley, 764 pages), we're talking primitive Christianity and Gibbon's take on how the pa

The Christians proliferated, Gibbon says, in part by attracting criminals who were ready to wash away their sins through baptism. Instead, primitive Christians put their energy into the creation of a fully separate society devoted to their new church. www.michaelpritchett.co/blog/blog-po...

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The Fall of the Roman Empire Pt 2 — Michael Pritchett In this second part of three on the decline and fall of Rome, based on a reading of the Penguin Classic The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( Abridged Edition, by Edward Gibbon, e...

“There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times,” Gibbon says.
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The Fall of the Roman Empire Pt 1 - The Falling — Michael Pritchett Hello Dear Reader, It's inauguration time, so this is part 1 of 3 and we'll be talking the fall of the Roman empire.  I know these pages are usually devoted to fiction and novelists, and the subject ...

“Augustus came to power after the murder of Julius Caesar and destroyed the balance of power with a series of sweeping constitutional rewrites. Gibbon's main point about monarchy is, when you put one person in charge, the entire world is just a prison for their enemies.” tinyurl.com/ycxbykfy

I'm getting my next newsletter ready to go with this week inspiring a theme on the Fall of the Roman Empire. I'll be doling it out in three parts, subscribe and join me on this look back (and look ahead)
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Why Goth and Romance Are Still Taking Over Fiction — Michael Pritchett Lately, I've been thinking it's a very good thing we had Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe and Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins and others to formulate both the Goth sensib...

From the newsletter archives: Goths Will Rule The World
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Literary Pairings — Michael Pritchett The theme of the July newsletter is Pairings. I also want to recognize the importance of Juneteenth last month and the recent passing of the great Alice Munro, a story writer who can be credited with...

From the newsletter archives: Literary Pairings - like a nice wine and cheese.
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True Crime Reads — Michael Pritchett The subject this time is true crime. In keeping with my current reading list and my research reading for my own projects, this time I'm recommending Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone In The Dark (2018...

From the newsletter archives: Unraveling True Crime Novels (without all the red string) www.michaelpritchett.co/blog/blog-po...