Monthly Archives: February 2013

Most companies get very upset if someone messes with their logo, but Google is different.  It regularly puts its logo through all sorts of gyrations and variations.  The often-innovative Google doodles are generally posted for a day, celebrate birthdays, the … Continue reading →

Rienzi, an early opera composed by Richard Wagner, is based on the 1835 novel of the same name by Edward Bulyer-Lytton.  As you may remember Bulyer-Lytton is also the author of the 1830 novel Paul Clifford which gave us the … Continue reading →

How’s this for the plot of a novel?  A black child is born into poverty in the rural south, somehow gets a degree in anthropology from Barnard College; plays a significant role in the Harlem Renaissance writing plays, short stories, … Continue reading →

I confess.  I’m a bookworm.  I always have been, and always will be.  I can’t deny it because the evidence is in almost every room in my house.  Books.  Hundreds of books on hundreds of subjects.  Books I’ve read, books … Continue reading →

“Serious literature acts like a rocket-booster to the brain. . . . The research shows the power of literature to shift mental pathways, to create new thoughts, shapes and connections in the young and the staid alike.”  Those are the … Continue reading →

I invite you to send me a list of your favorite books (fiction and nonfiction), short stories, plays, essays and anything else that is meaningful to you.  I suggest that the list include no more than ten works.  You can … Continue reading →

For most of the time that we storytelling animals have existed, we have had no way to publish and copyright the stories we have created.  Even after the printing press was invented, many people still failed to have their works … Continue reading →