My writing became my second dream world, my second escape from the world I had grown to loathe, that world where I had felt like I didn't belong, that world where I felt I had no place, that world I so desperately wanted to escape. When I wrote, I did.
Lev Raphael | Posted 05.31.2012
I enjoy reading well-written books where there are earth-shattering secrets, a race against the clock, harrowing twists and turns, lives constantly under threat. But I don't have an itch to create one.
Fern Siegel | Posted 05.23.2012
The trials and tribulations, both artistic and personal, of this singular crew would make a compelling story. However, the characters of February House are drawn in brushstrokes; there isn't enough at stake.
Warren Adler | Posted 05.23.2012
For fiction writers in search of a publishing outlet, these are the best of times. For fiction writers in search of readers, this is the worst of times. For fiction writers in search of monetary rewards it is, for most, a disaster.
Michael Winship | Posted 05.16.2012
Wounded Warrior had asked some of us to come to Landstuhl to meet with the medical staff there. Some 3,000 strong, military and civilian, they work ceaselessly in what has become one of the busiest trauma centers in the world.
Lev Raphael | Posted 05.07.2012
Have you been published?
What do you write? Oh.
Do you have, like, a real job?
Warren Adler | Posted 05.04.2012
Okay, so now we know where the e-book is going. Ever upward. To have predicted that twelve years ago, when I had all my novels reversed from major pu...
Debra Weiner | Posted 04.30.2012
I really, really want to make parmesan black pepper biscotti. But I also want to write more. My blog is seriously envying the amount of attention I am paying to my kitchen.
Refinery29.com | Posted 04.24.2012
In 2012, there is no relevant conversation about whether or not women are funny. From our vantage point, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hold down the two mo...
The New York Times | Posted 04.19.2012
What book is on your night stand now? Right now I'm looking right at Mary Gaitskill's "Bad Behavior"; the new Diane Keaton autobiography; "Having I...
Warren Adler | Posted 04.17.2012
For fiction authors who are published by traditional publishers and rely on advances and royalties for their living, the future is dim.
Rachel Sherman | Posted 04.12.2012
When I was a baby, my mother told me that my father fantasized that once I could talk, I would tell them all of the things I had been thinking from the time I could not.
A.J. Walkley | Posted 04.10.2012
Women writers have used initials and male pen names for centuries to cover up their gender, knowing that for some readers (namely male), simply seeing a female's name on the cover of a book would dissuade them.
Warren Adler | Posted 04.06.2012
"Self-publishing" is now a reasonably respectable process that allows anyone who writes a book to be digitally "shelved" alongside authors published by traditional routes.
Warren Adler | Posted 05.29.2012
Does durability, for example, constitute an important definition of what is or becomes a literary novel? How does a novel become a classic? Who determines what becomes a classic?
Michael Roth | Posted 05.29.2012
The great American poet, Adrienne Rich, died this week at her home in Santa Cruz. She was a brave and ardent writer, a gifted teacher and a powerful voice of conscience. There is no one quite like her in American letters.
Brandt Goldstein | Posted 05.21.2012
Can a writer working in the realm of nonfiction ever change the facts because he's Making Art or Delivering an Important Message? The view of basically every respected journalist is Hell No. But a new book takes the opposite view.
Scott Alexander Hess | Posted 05.02.2012
All of Faulkner's books are ripe with both overt and subtle sexuality. His novel Sanctuary, about a debutante who is taken hostage in a farm house (sometimes referred to as his potboiler), is wild, beautiful, brilliant and very sensual.
Joe Woodward | Posted 05.01.2012
Let us enjoy the surprises, the challenges of literature in all languages, in translation and otherwise. Let us contemplate the writer, too, writing in all her forms. Let us see how we are.
Red Room | Posted 04.18.2012
Can't find the time to write? Life is short. Stop with the angst, already. If you're not writing, you don't really want to. Go find something that yanks your chain. Do that, and leave us writers alone.
Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 04.14.2012
Several years ago, I unleashed a whole lot of gratitude and love in a group of wonderful writers
Warren Adler | Posted 04.09.2012
The true novelist must continue to soldier on, keep writing, keep trying, taking the increasingly painful hits of rejection after rejection until ... well, until someone out there catches on ... or doesn't.
David Henry Sterry | Posted 04.09.2012
When Nura pitched her anthology revolving around the love lives of Muslim-American women, we were blown away.
Lisa Blackwell | Posted 04.03.2012
Great writers depict their unique quest for dignity with a freshness and accuracy that reverberates with their readers, especially those with similar experiences.
Posted 04.03.2012
Our friends at the online literary community Figment, have launched Figment Daily Themes, a free email service designed to help subscribers get into t...
Pandora Boxx | Posted 06.01.2012