Writers

In his book, Beckett Before Godot , John Pilling notes: PJ Murphy has been one of the very few Beckett critics to see that Mercier et Camier suffers from what the Denis Devlin review calls 'the need that in its haste to be abolished cannot pause to be stated'. For a book so full of statement, indeed, Mercier et Camier seems oddly insubstantial, as if the 'haste to be abolished' had been more important than 'the predicament of particular human identity.' [1] The English version certainly has a...Read Full Story

Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together... TS Eliot , The Waste Land I have no idea what the IQs of these gentlemen are but I don’t think the same criterion applies when you’re talking about writers, composers, comedians and artists. Few would dispute that Beethoven was a musical genius, that Picasso was an artistic genius, that Shakespeare was a literary genius and that Peter Sellers was a comedic genius but does that mean that every note...Read Full Story

Killing Fear by Allison Brennan is a finalist in Romance Writers of America RITA(r) contest for Best Romantic Suspense. 2009 RITA Finalists for Romantic Suspense The 2009 RITA honors romance fiction published in 2008. More than 1,000 novels and novellas were judged in 12 categories. The 2009 Golden Heart Award honors unpublished romance manuscripts in 2008. Winners of the awards will be announced July 18th at the RITA and Golden Heart Awards Ceremony to be held at RWA’s 29th Annual National...Read Full Story

On Writers & Writing 2012 Softcover Engagement Calendar On Writers and Writing 2012 Softcover Engagement Calendar On Writers & Writing 2012 Engagement Calendar: The  On Writer's and Writing Desk Diary  features 53 original essays that consider the "how" and "why" of writing from the perspective of a broad range of authors. In this year's edition, authors Helen Sheehy and Leslie Stainton include a host of notables, ranging from poet Anna Akhmatova to novelist Charles Dickens, from scientist...Read Full Story

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me. – Hugh Mackay This should be the shortest post ever. Hands up all those who are perfect. [ Pause for pretend counting ] Right, so that’s one, two, three, four … none of you. Not a one. And I’m not perfect either. Okay we can all go home. I’m reliably informed (i.e. my dad told me) that you can’t get something perfect out of something imperfect with the...Read Full Story

I find it hard not to be funny. As much as I'm a serious-minded individual I think too much seriousness can wear a body down. All of my novels contain funny moments but I don’t really think of my books as comic novels. I think of myself as a serious novelist with stuff to say, you know, meaning-of-life stuff, stuff to go away and ponder. That’s why I write books, to make people think, not to tell stories. Stories are boring. People use humour to deal with all sorts of things including tragedy...Read Full Story

Like almost every urban Indian in 2011, we are a bunch of ajeeb folks. We are proud of our country yet complain incessantly about it. We love our cricket team but hate them when they lose. We watch every movie and then carp about how inaccurate the reviews were. We get cheaper mobile plans yet manage to run up larger telephone bills. We get raises every year and complain about our jobs. We want to startup a business but haven't got the energy to get off our cushy bums in our padded office...Read Full Story

Like almost every urban Indian in 2011, we are a bunch of ajeeb folks. We are proud of our country yet complain incessantly about it. We love our cricket team but hate them when they lose. We watch every movie and then carp about how inaccurate the reviews were. We get cheaper mobile plans yet manage to run up larger telephone bills. We get raises every year and complain about our jobs. We want to startup a business but haven't got the energy to get off our cushy bums in our padded office...Read Full Story

Due out in stores on July 28, 2009 this is the cover art for the newest book by Jeaniene Frost. This is Book Four in the Night Huntress Series. Enjoy the art! - Grimpuppy Buy This Book On: Amazon.com Barnes & Noble Powell's Books Jeaniene Frost Official Website 2009 Grimpuppy.com and Destiny ZeleniakRead Full Story

By Italo Calvino There was a country where they were all thieves. At night everybody would leave home with skeleton keys and shaded lanterns and go and burgle a neighbour’s house. They’d get back at dawn, loaded, to find their own house had been robbed. So everybody lived happily together, nobody lost out, since each stole from the other, and that other from another again, and so on and on until you got to a last person who stole from the first. Trade in the country inevitably involved...Read Full Story