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bob-mustin's picture
Dec.20.2011
  image via dwell.com There's a fascinating article (one every writer should read) in the December 2011 issue of The Writer's Chronicle by Kyle Semmel, "Revaluing the Novella." Semmel bemoans the short shrift the novella gets in the book marketing game these days, and he lays out...
steven-belanger's picture
Dec.01.2011
Photo: Man Who Laughs, Conrad Veidt     A few quick snippets that occurred to me today about this seminal work:   1.  I was wondering today why so many works circa 1890-1900 centered around the mask we wear to keep apart the good and bad parts of our nature--or, rather, that...
stephen-evans's picture
Jul.02.2008
Now that reviews are starting to roll in for my book, I thought I would add my own unbiased opinion. I have concluded that my novel The Marriage of True Minds is the greatest short novel ever written. To explicate my criteria and decision-making process, let's examine some of the other fine...