COMING SOON!

I have 2 new books that are about to be released:

The Innkeeper at the End of the World – a novel

and

A Lab’s Ears Are Made of SILK – a novella for middle-graders

The right’s war on Shakespeare…

Florida Schools Are Slashing Shakespeare to Comply With DeSantis Agenda

The governor’s assault on education isn’t sparing the English language’s most esteemed writer

A great man of letters has passed on…

Cormac McCarthy, Novelist Who Explored an Apocalyptic American West, Dead at 89

The celebrated author was best known for his Border Trilogy books as well as his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road

RIP Martin Amis

Opinion: A cerebral rock star is dead | CNN

In a tribute to his literary hero, John Avlon calls Martin Amis, who died last week, “an impossibly cool and erudite observer,” who “chronicled transatlantic culture from the rise of Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Reagan through 9/11 to the whiplash between Barack Obama and Donald Trump, in novels and e…

How comic books changed from books for children to something with significantly more depth.

How Writers On LSD Changed Marvel Comics Forever

In the 1970s, a forgotten generation of comic book writers took the medium from schlocky superheroes to artful considerations of consciousness, identity, and selfhood. Their secret? Tapping into the counterculture.

Rushdie has fought censorship since 1988. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania has banned 456 books. Let that sink in for a second: book banning is real.

#woke
#blacklivesmatter
#metoomovement

Opinion: Salman Rushdie has risked his life for decades; US must stand up against censorship, too

The horrendous attack on Salman Rushdie, an author who has been a champion for free speech and intellectual freedom by putting his life on the line, should be a lesson to the people of his chosen country, writes Rafia Zakaria.