The Mysteries of Writing

This is why I cannot write for most literary magazines. They—some—print and promote and hold up as admirable and worth emulating writing lik...

Baruch de Spinoza (1632 - 1677) is another philosopher I've known about but not known, which is why I read The Courtier and the Heretic:...

Blaise Pascal (1623–62 )is one of those intellectual figures I think I should know more about than his famous wager so when I saw Blaise Pas...

I was familiar with John Green for his best-selling novel, The Fault in Our Stars, which if you have not read I recommend. Today, however, I...

It was a confluence of items: a spam offer, a book review, and a book, all concerned with women and orgasm, which my online dictionary defin...

Maybe it's the difference between creating genre fiction—mystery, thriller, romance, fantasy—and literary fiction. Jesse Q. Sutanto Jess...

I don't know how to review—let alone critique—Elizabeth MeCracken's short story collection The Souvenir Museum .  A dozen stories. I...

Writing teachers tell students they should show not tell. Writers should, my search tells me, "convey emotions and actions through desc...

As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish science fiction Octavia Butler (1947-2006) is a fascinating author. Positive Obse...

Intimacies  by Katie Kitamura is her second novel narrated by an unnamed woman.  The first was A Separation  and that narrator was a married...