Red Room Where the Writers Are

Lately I've added a "Rarities" page to my blog, a place to put older, out of print stories and poems for a new generation of reader

Oh, my...

Throughout my life I’ve heard the term “reading between the lines” used to infer that a person has grasped some deeper, hidden secret buried in words someone else has written, or an untold st

Are some writers naïve or just being 'proper'?

When her new book was out, Jhumpa Lahiri said:

Sometimes writers pull from real life to write a story. I actually didn't know it, but my short story, THE BLUE GOOSE (mystericale.com)  is a real place!!!

My "wooie wooie" writer friend ( a "wooie wooie" being her designation of an oddity so strange it must be supernatural) emailed to inform me of a 'voice from the past'.

"A new book about Franz Kafka discloses that he was more than casually interested in hard pornography. Lovers of literature shudder inwardly. . . "

I've noticed something.

The past two weeks have seen the resolution of two contentious interactions between writers and readers (a/k/a "fans").  Stephenie Meyer, author of the hugely successful teen vampire TWI