Tag Archives: Literature and Fiction

Everyone may be creative, but to be any type of artist requires a mixture of characteristics that not everybody possesses.

Wrap your cloak around you, place your hat upon your head, ensure sword and dagger are within reach, and go to a bookseller of repute.

The Indian author confirms himself to be one the best storytellers of our time in this adaptation of the Ramayana.

Olga Ivanovna is trapped in a small town. She leaps around, collecting every visiting "star", every scrap of local talent.

I'm beginning to realize that writing the books is the easy part of being a novelist. It's what comes after you're finished that's difficult.

Long live the Captain, and may he live to fight many a battle for our entertainment and edification.

I discovered new ways of becoming my own worst enemy.

Maybe they will never get published except through my own means; that won't take anything away from the fact that I created a world, populated it with people I like, and told a part of the story of their lives.

Pelecanos' latest is short on originality.

I think we all know someone like Joey Pigza, the title character in this moving, warm glimpse into a boy's life.