“..we just aren’t wholeheartedly connecting with your work, despite its many charms. So, we should step aside.”  An agent sent me this rejection of my memoir recently. To be fair to my manuscript, all the person received was my query. But I won’t quibble.   A compliment is

I sometimes marvel at the subjects some authors choose to explore.   Take, Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew Kirschbaum.  (“Word Perfect,” by Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, June 2016, pgs. 71-73.)   How large, I wonder, is the audience that

Death and dying is a process as fearful for the artist as it is for the rest of us and immortality just as meaningless. But their manner of leave-taking should tell us something about the genius that purports to lift mystery’s veil on existence, at least a little. Dylan Thomas raile