Last night, amidst all the glitz, glitter and glamour, the 89th Annual Academy Awards – the “Oscars” – were handed out in a star studded ceremony in (where else?) Hollywood, California. Among the statuettes handed out, two were for writing excellence: Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay. Just in …
I tend to be one of those people who obsesses over gift giving. I don’t get a chance to do it all …
I feel so blessed that I can “work” from home as a book reviewer, essayist and occasionally as a literary editor, …
(Due to this nasty thing known as a “deadline”, this Gimbling in the Wabe is a repeat of one first posted here …
There are quite a few memorable first sentences in literature: “Call me Ishmael.” “It was the best of times, it was the …
We humans are so divergent in who we are, how we react and respond, in how our minds work and our ideas …
This is a repeat of a Gimbling in the Wabe from 2013. Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. ~William …
I have a secret I’m going to share with you. It’s not that searing of a secret, just something I haven’t really …
On Wednesday, November 19, in association with the announcement of the winners of the 2014 National Book Awards, Neil Gaiman presented the …
So what is a “writer”? Common sense would tell us a writer is “one who writes”, at least using the word in …
