The top 10 bookworms’ tales From Hamlet through Helene Hanff to the Very Hungry Caterpillar, novelist Niall Williams browses the best books that manage to make heroes out of readers.…Continue readingThe heroic reader
The other day we tripped over a movie on TV – “Snow White: A Tale of Terror”, vintage 1997. I’m always one for a good re-telling of a good old…Continue readingUnhappily ever after…
Greg Ross writes at Futility Closet that Noam Chomsky once offered the expression Colorless green ideas sleep furiously as an example of a sentence that’s perfectly grammatical but is pure…Continue readingColorless green ideas
The following story by Linda Grant about culling her library in a move, fills me with superstitious fear. I go to my own shelves and gaze upon them, trail possessive…Continue reading‘I have killed my books’
F. Scot Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda battled depression and led lives that eventually spun out of their control. They weren’t the only writers on that list, Cody Delistraty writes…Continue readingWhy are writers depressed?
…or just a writer? Five signs you might be one or the other. by Jill Nagel Is your roommate a little skittish around you? Jill Nagel asks at Fresh Print…Continue readingAre you a serial killer?
One of my stories, ‘Leaving Via Callia‘, has been posted at Splinter Universe, where “Sharon Lee & Steve Miller present rare genre moments for readers looking for a fiction fix.”…Continue readingThe splintered universe
CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ against the USSR A scene from the 1965 film Doctor Zhivago, based on Boris Pasternak’s epic novel. Declassified documents show that the CIA used Doctor Zhivago,…Continue readingBooks as weapons
Arianna Rebolini of BuzzFeed has chosen 102 of the “Greatest Books By Women” and asks how many of them you’ve read so far. I have read 34 of them and…Continue readingHow many have you read?