Dogeared Lit
Remember that passage…
Fold the Corner of a Book’s Page
The best literature, fiction or nonfiction, explores the great social and political issues of its day. Yet it is timeless. So, go ahead and deface any book (that you own) and “dogear” the pages that contain your favorite passages. You may need them later!
Books for Expanding Minds & Hearts
Authors Exercise the Imagination to See Various Trump Endings
For folks opposed to the 45th President, The New York Times offers a bit of recreational reading. It’s pure fiction from the minds of top spy and crime novelists, who will exercise your imagination for seeing Donald Trump’s end…
Morbid Fascination: Books, Shows & Memorabilia
Most of us revel in scary (but safe) fun. However, some people not only flirt with the dark side, they collect it. Fellow-WordPress-blogger Tom G. Wolf gives us the history of murderabilia…
Twitter & Facebook Need More Democratic Algorithms
My social networking efforts to build an online presence are a failure, delivering near-zero visitors to my website. What will I do?…
November Is National Noveling Month
November is National Novel Writing Month, aka Noveling Month, and most fondly known as NaNoWriMo. You will never find this much motivation again to finish your novel’s first draft…
I Read About Comic Book Geniuses, Kavalier and Clay
“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay,” by Michael Chabon, received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It’s a story that surrounds the fictional history of the comic-book industry. And, yes. It is colorful…
Playing With the Gutenberg Block Editor
For a fun experiment, I installed the WordPress “Gutenberg” plugin and played building-blocks in the editor. Here are the results of my test…
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive or who had ever been alive.
~ James Baldwin
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