Beautiful View? How so? You turn the pages of what promised to be a ripping yarn. But “it” happens again. On the very first page, you read “It was a beautiful view.” A few pages later, again, a similar example pops up: “James is a big man, and a bad … Read More
It seems to me our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for … Read More
Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain. There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages … Read More
Brad raised his hand. “Yes, Mr. Smith, you have a question?” Dr. C. asked, stuffing his lecture notes into his leather briefcase, the one that looked as if an M48 tank had run over it. “I do, sir. How do you read all those books you review for the American … Read More
