So, I’m sitting at home, trying not to cry because I’m so broke and alone, when I get my copies of Riffing On Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory.…

Brad Land’s first book was sparse on descriptions, allowing his memoir to have that strange weight of simply being real and dipped completely in scene.  His novel, Pilgrims Upon the…

The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan might be one of my most favorite of novels.  It is short and well-written.  The sentences are sharp and concise.  There are lines that…

Writing a book like World War Z is very, very risky.  It could have turned out horrible.  The premise, a zombie outbreak, is very rooted in the horror genre, something…