Author Focus: Avi
Avi writes varied works for children and teens that can be enjoyed by adults, too. My introduction to the young-adult novelist Avi was an...
New Story for a Famous Title: JUDE THE OBSCURE
The true story of Jesus's jealous brother is discovered In modern day, archaeologists find some ancient scrolls and turn them over to a...
New Story for a Famous Title: THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
A classic tale of Beauty and the Beast and the other Beast Though the town's beloved Dr. Joseph Jekyll might smile, the woman who loves...
New Story for a Famous Title: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
A blind girl becomes the moral guide for a government killer In this series, I create synopses for new stories based on the titles of...
The Short of It
The short story is not dead. So say such sources as The Paris Review's Lorin Stein and Americanliterature.com. I would have thought...
The Horror
Does it make sense that a pacifistic vegan, someone who cries watching factory-farming videos, should be such a devoted fan of horror...
The Dragon Roars
An earlier post on this blog explained how I get many writing ideas from my reading, and in this post I can provide proof-positive of...
10 Fave Lit-Flick Ladies
In the classic 1987 film Throw Momma from the Train, Larry the creative writing teacher is reading the titles of the books his students...
Artistic License to Kill
The arts have been misrepresenting history for as long as there has been history or the arts. Some people might say, "Well, history is...
The Magic Influence of Fairy Tales
A shelf on one of the groaning bookcases in my home library is packed with hardcover books collecting fairy tales, folktales, myths, and...
