Category Archives: Writing

Protecting Fantasy Writers

h/t Tom Gauld

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Why Vonnegut Matters

Like many Kurt Vonnegut fans I became a devoted reader during my early adolescence. If memory serves, the first of his novels that I read was Sirens of Titan, but it could have just as well been Cat’s Cradle. Of course they weren’t teaching … Continue reading →

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What Book Nerds Do

H/t to Laura Pacheco and The Wild Detectives

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Take Your Child To A Bookstore

The ninth annual Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day, a project developed to “instill a love of bookstores in children so that they will value and support this most precious of resources as they go on to enter and create … Continue reading →

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Or Is It ?

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NYC: Poe on the street

h/t Zimad in Queens  

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Book Week

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Hard Day At The Writing Desk

h/t Tom Gauls

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Another Caturday

h/t William Blake

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Literary Road Trips

For the last century, American road trips have inspired authors to write great novels and memoirs based on their travels by car, bus, or motorcycle. From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Jack Kerouac the open road has launched a special form … Continue reading →

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