Vincent Chu
Apr 25, 2018: I began writing at a young age. I guess there was always this natural urge to create, whether it was…
read moreTop Warren Adler Fiction to Read this Earth Day
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Read more...Karen Day
When I was sixteen, I wrote my first novel. It was two hundred pages and included one dead mother, one alcoholic father, a gaggle of complicated (and tragic) friends, an unrequited love with a cute boy/football player and a main character who is sent to a Rocky Mountain drug rehabilitation…
Read more...My Salute to Librarians
Happy #NationalLibraryWeek! From the moment I entered the hushed, sacred precinct of the Brownsville Children’s Library in Brownsville, Brooklyn, back in the mid-1930s, I have been a passionate advocate of the public library. My most profoundly joyous memory is walking through the crowded, noisy, aroma-filled atmosphere of Sutter Avenue, between rows…
Read more...Jeremy Tiang
Growing up in Singapore, I was raised largely on books from the UK -- a common enough experience in a former British colony. From a childhood diet of Enid Blyton and Beatrix Potter, I graduated to Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy and Philip Larkin. There were writers from Singapore too, but…
Read more...J.T. Ellison
I’ve been a writer since I could hold a pencil. As a child, I read voraciously, penned little poems and short stories. I wrote all through high school and college, planning for this to be my life, until a lone professor told me I wasn’t good enough to be published.…
Read more...THE “VEDDY” FORMAL DINNER PARTY: SOME HARROWING HINTS
“‘The ‘Veddy’ Formal Dinner Party’ is a satirical piece I wrote that was originally published in 1977 in Washington Dossier, the society magazine for the nation’s capital from 1975-1991 run by my wife and eldest son. Every page in the magazine reveals a different nuance of life during that era…
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