This morning a notice from Amazon popped up on my screen. The message said a customer had liked my review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Buried Giant but made no mention of whether or not he or she actually bought the book. (Blog 5/5/15) Next I was reminded I’d written 13 reviews on Amaz
I received a lovely rejection letter the other day for one of my weird parables. The editor hadn’t a clue about what I was doing but wanted to help, perhaps seeing a glimmer of talent. He made suggestions entirely inappropriate to the genre I was inventing but which, I suspect
In 2014, I wrote about the Intentional Fallacy, a term of literary criticism. (6/5/14) The theory states that to understand a work of art, nothing is relevant except the piece itself. Knowledge of the artist’s childhood or what he or she ate for breakfast has no bearing on int