I grew up reading the classics - Tolstoy, Maupassant, Chekhov, the Victorian writers, etc. and strongly value traditional literature. You can't move forward as a writer of literary fiction without honoring the past.
The French philosopher, Rousseau, said that in order to write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and finish without knowing what you have written.
In his late seventies Morris Shapiro is joining the horn section of a rhythm and blues rock band. Good luck Morris!
Evelyn Ryan has attended Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church for twenty-eight years but is neither Catholic nor has any intention of ever joining the faith.
With his ground-breaking collection of essays, On Moral Fiction, John Gardner turned the literary establishment upside down.
Eighty-two year-old Jacob Wasserman just shot someone in the head with a 38-caliber revolver but neither feels remorse nor wants a public defender.
Dustin Baxter thinks critical race theory is a lot of hooey, but what does Monica Crowell, his dark-skinned colleague, think?
Dr. Miriam Hollings’ newest, psychiatric client, twelve-year-old Howie Crandall, wants to run away from home and join a band of American expatriates living on a remote island in French Polynesia.
Constance Wilson, a real estate broker, is considering a rather unusual career change, where she will be moving precipitously downward not up.
Zora Hurston, an Afro-American writer, rose to literary stardom then quickly fell out of favor with her own contemporaries, finding her final resting place in a pauper’s grave.
Jason and Mason Carrington are identical twins, their features so indistinguishable that even their mother sometimes had trouble telling them apart except for one striking difference.
Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener is an unfathomable character like none other in American literature.
Solomon Kaplan wanted to marry Denise Moriarty fresh out of high school, but her Irish Catholic father wasn’t agreeable. Fifty years later Sol is picking up where things left off.
An essay about Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and her literary masterpiece, The Revolt of Mother
Wally Whitcomb, the town bully and troublemaker, is about to get his comeuppance.
Morris Greenblatt is having a hard time deciding whether or not to attend his brother’s funeral.
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