My last post started me thinking about the relationship of writers and the works they create to readers and their interpretation of a story. I am talking about novels and short stories, here.  And to narrow the field further, I am talking about what might be called literature as opposed to popular writing.  Literature is writing that has a story [...]

I usually have two or three books going at one time both fiction and non-fiction. When reading non-fiction, there is a point at which I need to read something lighter to allow ideas and concepts to gestate and A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin is the latest book I chose for reading. If it has [...]

This little article from the Sydney (AU) Morning Herald has just prompted me to think about the effect of our excesses.  I have seen this type of thing happen time and again with people who are filled with jealousy and hatred and drug abuse and even those filled with self-righteousness — drugs don’t have to be involved. [...]