Category Archives: Writing in general

Just observing. Interesting phenomenon, first On Bullshit, then Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, or maybe the order of publication was the reverse of that. If you go here: http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Search-Books/b/ref=sv_b_0?ie=UTF8&node=241582011and type bullshit into the title field, then filter out the … Continue reading →

I mentioned in a previous entry that I’m researching a Civil War novel. Writers face the eternal question, How can I organize the events of my book, especially an ambitious sprawling beast like this one? One time-honored tool, paper or … Continue reading →

I’m four lectures into a 36-lecture course on Classics in Russian Literature taught by that lively octogenarian Irwin Weil, a professor emeritus from Northwestern University, and I’m having a ball! Dr. Weil once said: Just because something is imaginary, doesn’t … Continue reading →

This post was originally intended to list as many anti-war novels as I could come up with. But I’ve found great lists already available on the web: Amazon list-maker "blahblahblah" from South Korea gives us this list. And Wikipedia has … Continue reading →

Here’s an eloquent, sobering assessment of the current disaster that is U.S. politics, from one of my father’s generation. Opener: Democracy can die a slow death from a thousand cuts, inflicted by a few small men, wielding deadly little knives, … Continue reading →