Francine Prose has written a new book about Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, claiming her as a literary genius and exploring how she actively was revising her journal to prepare it for publication after the war. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Prose says something that made me [...]
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A comment showed up on my last post that I marked as spam: “It’s not so simple to do a good enough written essays, preferably if you are occupied. I consult you to define [essay mill] and to be spare from query that your work will be done by custom writing service” All of [...] While I was endeavoring to give good advice to someone applying to San Jose State University’s MFA program, I managed to find my own statement of purpose. I thought I’d post it with the thoughts about why I wrote it the way I did. Statement of Purpose: The Shoulders of Giants by [...] “If someone can talk you out of being a writer, you’re not a writer. If I can talk you out of being a writer, I’ve done you a favor, because now you’ll be free to pursue your real talent, whatever that may be. And, for the record, everybody has one. The lucky ones figure out [...] My monthly “Life in Comics” column for Publishers Weekly went up last week — it’s here. September’s column is about independent comics publishers having to compete with big publisher-backed graphic novel imprints. Last month’s column was about how the infrastructure of the comics industry was built to support a model that is increasingly irrelevant and [...] Henceforth the memory of Leon was the centre of her boredom; it burnt there more brightly than the fire travellers have left on the snow of a Russian steppe. She sprang towards him, she pressed against him, she stirred carefully the dying embers, sought all around her anything that could revive it; and the [...] |
My Opium Den
After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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