The "long read" nature of my writing style and my general slow, sometimes oh-so-slow, process could - to some readers- appear cont...

Great writing is flourishing in the comments section of Amazon (as I've recently noted ). Today's example comes via the hundred...

One of the best aspects of people is the way we make writers and artists part of our lives. This week, we lost a great friend and a member...

It's the season for Advice to the Graduate. We live in a time when those old and reliable models for careers don't work so well (i...

This is the Third and final part of an experiment I made to live and work offline and write about my results via a sort of non LiveBlog.  ...

" Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, b...

A quick look back at 2010 through a blog filter -- While recently reading through the information about those who visit and read here often,...

It's a rather disjointed day, what with the sun blazing like Love itself overhead and every green thing growing so fast you can almost h...

Christie's will auction an Olivetti Lettera 32 portable typewriter on Friday - the very typewriter which writer Cormac McCarthy bought i...

One of the most imaginative American writers of science fiction, Philip Jose Farmer, passed away yesterday at the age of 91 and I gladly wri...

Back in the ancient days of my twenties, I would often be a trooper and join some horde headed to a nightclub. It would not take long after ...

Sometime in 1974, I was lugging around this gigantic book with the weird name of "The Gulag Archipelago". Fortunately, living in a...

All around the world and especially in America people on this day will be writing to mourn and celebrate Kurt Vonnegut Jr who died yesterday...