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Reading John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” by Charles May may-on-the-short-story.blogspot.com Two of John Cheever’s best known early stories, “Torch Song” and “The Enormous Radio,” are outright fantasies. Later stories, such as...

my self-publishing journey Entering September of 2015, Tommy Black and the Staff of Light had sold less than 200 books and was sputtering along with no real hope for a...

my self-publishing journey In my last column I noted that traditional publishing marketing methods had turned out to be ineffective. I had sent out copies of the book to over...

Thoughts on the genre from J.K. Ullrich, whose Blue Karma is a finalist in the 2015 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Indie Book by J.K. Ullrich In the carnival...

Thoughts on “cli-fi” from the guy who coined the term by Dan Bloom What is climate fiction? Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood asked that question a few months ago, posing...

University of Virgina Presshttp://upress.virginia.edu Although Michael Crichton’s State of Fear is neither high literature nor scientifically accurate, it may well be the most important climate change novel yet written....

my self-publishing journey In my last column on self-publishing I described the various grassroots methods I was using to get my middle grade novel, Tommy Black and the Staff...

On view through August 23 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, this exhibit for the first time showcases notebook pages that contain Basquiat’s early exploration of imagery that...

by Dieter Buchhart In 1984, Basquiat began to collaborate intensely with Andy Warhol. The partnership was originally proposed by influential art dealer Bruno Bischofberger, Basquiat’s European gallerist. In 1984...

Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900), author, critic, and editor, is best known today for his collaboration with Mark Twain on The Gilded Age (1873). Born in Plainfield, Massachusetts, on September 12, 1829, Warner...