More than a decade ago someone posed a question about fictional characters – how they make you respond. She asked for characters that you-the-reader “absolutely loathed… really loved… empathized with…brought…Continue readingWhich characters do you love or loath?
A reprint of a blog from four years ago This story by Linda Grant about culling her library in a move, fills me with superstitious fear. I go to my…Continue reading‘I have killed my books’
You come up against it in a story somewhere and the hair on the back of your neck stands up – you have just come face to face with Power.…Continue readingThe fearful power of story
I went to see “Shape of Water” when it was on cinema release last December and when I came home I wrote an essay/review on it which has become the…Continue reading“For you are everywhere…” Still
The sometimes bizarre world of a writer 1. There are times that I have sat and watched words I am typing appear on the screen and not recognized them. That’s…Continue readingConfessions of an Author
A perennial question from interviewers is a variation of what books were important to me growing up or becoming a writer. In short, which books were formative. There are a…Continue readingThe books that formed me
…of Coyote, the Trickster Coyote the Trickster is one of the most layered and amazing characters ever to inhabit the lore and mythology and folk tales and legends of humankind.…Continue readingThe 10 Commandments…
If we aren’t connected to the Internet, do we exist? photo by yatharth roy vibhakar All of us in the cyberworld have an umbilical to the Internet and panic if…Continue readingEmail and existence
I suffer from occasional attacks of chutzpah. One of these caught up to me sometime in the mid-eighties. I was in my early twenties, trembling on the edge of a…Continue readingHere’s to great editors..
Journey into the heart of hate Before I went to see it with a friend, I knew almost nothing about Spike Lee’s latest movie “BlacKKKlansman” other than it was based…Continue readingBlacKkKlansman