What follow is a post, verbatim, from the Valancourt Books Blog, posted on Saturday, October 27, 2018 and […]
There are few things finer in this life than books and booze. My personal heaven is when I […]
These days I’m re-reading Raymond Chandler’s masterpiece, The Long Good-bye. I do this as I’m nearing the completion […]
Us writers can obsess endlessly over the optimal amount of daily writing time. Should it be measured in […]
Dan Simmons is a writer you might know, and he once said something about writing and reading that […]
Sometimes you come across passages that remind you again of what good writing is. I just started the […]
Graphic novels, comic books and kids’ books with too many pictures are given a bad rap. But a […]
In my edition of The Hobbit, cheap mass-market paperback, there is an introduction by Peter S Beagle from […]
…to begin with, that is. And Pixar isn’t afraid to admit this. In the sublime business book Creativity […]
I subscribed to Tin House this year. Tin House is a publication that puts out the very best […]
