One of the toughest challenges faced by a novice novelist, beyond self-editing, is defining the hero. The hero emulates the story’s moral core, which in turn allows readers to identify with the character or buy into the story. The lack... Read More

Since my accident, the nanoseconds, the smallest measure of time of my being back, mount up to years as the mystical connections multiply like stars in the heavens. In 1986, Emma Lou Warner Thayne was the victim of a freak accident... Read More

“Essentially we are incapable of accepting that much of life is inexplicable. And so we use myth, art and religion as devices to explain and cope with reality.” Thus does English writer Charlie Campbell set the stage for his survey... Read More

The presentation of this material alone merits a review. With an appropriate landscape (horizontal) format, and slip-cased in a tight-fitting, black-on-black embossed sleeve featuring the camera’s outlandish dimensions, the very act of... Read More

Thomas Christensen is no slouch when it comes to writing page-turning nonfiction. Among his previous books are The Discovery of America and Other Myths and The U.S.-Mexican War. In handling his weighty subject matter, Christensen avoids... Read More

Thomas Christensen is no slouch when it comes to writing page-turning nonfiction. Among his previous books are The Discovery of America and Other Myths and The U.S.-Mexican War. In handling his weighty subject matter, Christensen avoids... Read More

“One can argue Anton Chekhov is the second most popular writer on the planet,” notes author and movie producer Alan Twigg in his foreword to "Memories of Chekhov". “Only Shakespeare … outranks Chekhov in terms of the movie... Read More

The characters in Michael Jeffrey Lee’s "Something in My Eye" come out from under all sorts hiding places—a slaughterhouse floor, a whorehouse, a couch by the edge of a river, even hell. It’s these characters that compelled... Read More