The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.” – Vladimir Nabokov The act of writing is a strange beast. A creature to love and to loathe, quite often at the […]
I’m sure you’ve seen the movie. A mouse of a boy runs down an indifferent city street, three larger boys in pursuit. Having recently tossed him into a dumpster because he had no lunch money to be extorted, they are trying to catch him to toss him back in after […]
When I was a boy there was a small bookstore in the shopping center across the street from my development. My middle-aged brain had some difficulty retrieving the name, but a quick appeal to my Facebook community quickly solved that problem. Bookland (Thanks Ann!) was within easy walking distance of my house. […]
I contacted Adam Schuitema not long after finishing Freshwater Boys. His stories were so vivid, his writing so compelling, that I knew I had to ask him about their construction. It relieves me to know that I was not the only young boy out there who spent hours using his Star […]
Freshwater Boys Adam Schuitema Delphinium Books ISBN-13: 978-1883285401 ─ᴥ─ Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. – Louise J. Kaplan I grew up in a small blue-collar borough in Pennsylvania named Marcus Hook. Not far from the railroad tracks behind our house that sped people back and forth from Philadelphia or […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.