Welcome to my inaugural book review of books on writing, the first in a series on the topic of creating prose. Featured book: Writers [on Writing]: Collected Essays from The New York Times, Introduction by John Darnton, 2001 Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York. (Vol. 1) What this book meant to me as […]

The best stories take us. We sail to a new place while all else falls away from our awareness. Disembarkation from the story is the sweet spot of admiration, which is often, in my life as an aspiring writer, the moment my stomach swims from the angst of the desire to write, mixed with the […]