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Column: What makes writing beautiful?
SC Cloud | St. Cloud Times via Yahoo News· 1 day agoBeautiful writing has always moved me, like this line from “The Dragon” by Ray Bradbury: "Now only the night moved in the souls of the two men bent by their ...
Acting alone, San Antonio school librarians are ousting books
San Antonio Express-News· 2 days agoForced to comply with a new state law barring sexually explicit content and targeted by pressure...
The Toni Morrison Award Winners: Fighters in the Censorship Trenches
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 6 days ago“‘Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick when it came to...
Let's Raise a Glass to These 35 Great Beer Quotes
Parade· 5 days agoCheers to one of the world's best beverages.
Diana Walters: A Boomer's Ruminations - Quotes To Live By
The Chattanoogan· 5 days agoIn 1964 Norman Cousins, a prominent writer, was diagnosed with a crippling, incurable disease. As we...
Why It’s a Vital Time for Short Stories
Esquire· 6 days agoAt least once every year, a debut short-story collection comes along and gets under my skin. Last year, it was Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare, by Megan...
In Nicolette Polek’s ‘Bitter Water Opera,’ Finding Yourself Is a Spectral Affair - The Village Voice
The Village Voice· 3 days agoThis is the titular “bitter water,” a Jewish trial by ordeal discontinued around 70 AD. In her debut novel, Bitter Water Opera, Nicolette Polek, an acclaimed short story writer and recent graduate ...