How to Find (or Build) a Writing Community – Part Three
This is the third in a three-part series on finding and building a writing community. [...]
Stories Behind Classic Book Covers: The Great Gatsby
Francis Cugat’s iconic painting of a disembodied face floating above the lights of New York [...]
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Oct
American Authors of Short Stories – Part One
Stories are a part of life. They’re everywhere. We relate them over the phone to [...]
Oct
Author Evaleen Stein and her “Little House of Dreams”
I live across the street from the former home of early-twentieth century author, poet, and [...]
Oct
On Regret
We often think of a well-received, award-winning, widely-read piece of published writing as a triumph [...]
Oct
Writing Out the Bad Stuff
Last summer someone gutted my new bike. Both wheels and the seat, gone. They left [...]
Friend or Foe: Writers and their Feuds
Friction among writers has all the earmarks of a good fiction story, but make no [...]
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Faulkner’s Rowan Oak
Slipping through a cold metal turnstile, I enter Rowan Oak, William Faulkner’s home in Oxford, [...]
Sep
“Such Friends:” Maxwell Perkins and F. Scott Fitzgerald
By: Kathleen Dixon Donnelly Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins [1884-1947] and author F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940] [...]
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Sep
The Strange Sadness of Stephen King’s “It”
For the longest time, I told myself that I would never read any book written [...]
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Sep