So my son came to me the other day. “You’ve gotta watch this,” he said. Apparently this Dr. Squatch soap is all the rage with the young men set. Apparently the brand has enjoyed a 400 percent growth in revenue, arguably because of their approachable YouTube advertising. Watching the video, I developed the following mini-essay
I don’t often read books about Being a Writer. Because you know I’m above all that, ha ha ha. At least I used to think I was. But Bird by Bird is famous among writers, a book that everyone at writer’s group has heard of. Of course I didn’t rush out to read it. Because
Book review: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. I loved this book, which is strange when you realize that the subject itself is dark: it concerns the sudden death of Didion’s husband, John Dunne, after nearly 40 years of marriage. Despite the tragic subject matter, reading it became, for me, not a guilty
Science doesn’t have an answer for that is the favorite saying of the day. My mom is reading ENLIGHTENMENT NOW by Steven Pinker. “This is the book that explains everything,” she said. “I heard about it from your little brother.” I read up on this in the Guardian: With some deft intellectual moves, [Pinker] manages
Although writing contests have long charged entry fees, and this is considered justified because it’s a contest and there are significant prizes to be won, submitting your work to various journals used to be uniformly free. Now in the last ten years, more and more literary magazines are charging writers to submit to their regular
