Richard Ellmann-from JAMES JOYCE: on a technique that has become commonplace

      James Joyce “cradles here (his epiphanies) the technique which has beome a commonplace of modern fiction.  Arrogant yet humble too, it claims importance by claiming nothing; it seeks a presentation so sharp that the comment by the author would be an interference.  It leaves off the veneer of gracious intimacy with the reader, of [...]

Alice Walker-a writer’s open letter to Obama

Read an open letter to Obama from Alice Walker: http://beyourownfairygodmot… about 13 hours ago from web

Randy-the nitty-gritty substance that is essential for a writer

      As a teenager my grandfather ran away from his boyhood home in Tennessee.   We never knew why, why he ran away and never went back.   He rode the rails to the Texas panhandle and married and died across the line in northwest Oklahoma.   There were many things about my grandfather that were never talked [...]