Rivers have always been very important to humankind, I say in the intro to my anthology, River. They’ve been called gods. They’ve been blessed and cursed and venerated and used…Continue readingRIVER
Today marks the 90th anniversary of Scribner’s publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. “During my junior year of high school,” Kara Watson writes at Off the Shelf,…Continue readingTurning 90
A reader in Spain, Amy P, posted this note on Goodreads about my miracle novel, The Secrets of Jin-shei: Cuarta vez que leo este libro y no será la última.…Continue readingMy God: It’s been 10 years?
At Strange Horizons, Kari Sperring writes about Katherine Kurtz. Matrilines: The Woman Who Made Fantasy “Kurtz’s debut novel, Deryni Rising, came out from Ballantine Books in 1970,” Sperring writes, “…and…Continue readingThe womanless cannon
“Ishtar Gate at Berlin Museum” by Rictor Norton 2.000 Years Ago in Babylon In the year Berlin turned 750 years old, I boarded a train in Hamburg bound for West…Continue readingTouching 2,000 years
Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat, has always been my hero, now more than ever since she led the charge against the The Clean Reader, an app which enabled customers to…Continue reading‘Victory for dirt’
On Vox, Kelsey McKinney remembers the 30 times the novel has been declared dead since 1902 Read the whole story HERE ~~~~~ Since I have written many coming-of-age stories –from…Continue readingThe novel is dead – again
At io9 Charlie Jane Anders, has picked: 18 Perfect Short Stories that pack more punch than most novels One example of hers is: “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray…Continue readingPerfect short stories?
Washington Square North, Nov. 2, 2013. At Slate, David Rosenberg offers proof that New Yorkers will read absolutely anywhere by examing the work of photographer Lawrence Schwartzwald, who started a…Continue readingThey read WHERE?
At MindBodyGreen, Lisa Westmoreland has offered us 10 Ways To Declutter Your Home (And Life!) She lost me at #4 where says that if you don’t read a book right…Continue readingDon’t touch my books!