Prose fiction
Prose Fiction Update With A Bit of Poetry
Another week, another passel of links into the wide, wide [...]
Ten Books for Conservatives (podcast)
From Accuracy in Media, in a podcast Don Irvine talks with [...]
Fiction Friday: Stories, News, Reviews & Opinion From the Publishing World
News of publishing's demise is greatly exaggerated. Wander [...]
Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Attacked, Defended
Author Harper Lee and her groundbreaking novel To Kill a [...]
Stephen King Strikes Out with ‘Blockade Billy’
Baseball inspires great stories. W. P. Kinsella’s [...]
The World of ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’—George Orwell’s Unhappy School Days Writ Large
In a recent article (also available as a podcast), "The [...]
“Just One More Thing . . . .”—Lt. Columbo Is on the Case
The Columbo Collection by William Link Crippen & [...]
John Sandford Shakes Things Up in ‘Wicked Prey’
Minnesota author John Sandford (real name John Camp) has [...]
Bronte Films on the Rise
Filmmakers are moving on from Jane Austen to the more romantic and emotionally explicit novels of the Bronte sisters. (more...) [...]
Happy Birthday, Nancy Drew
The Nancy Drew book series just reached its 80th anniversary. These books were of better quality than most critics acknowledge, and they have been far more influential—in a positive way—than feminists want to admit. Story here. Books here. [...]
‘The Redbreast’ Raises Interesting Moral Questions, With Few Answers
'It's an historian's duty to uncover, not to judge.' He lit [...]
Libby Malin’s “My Own Personal Soap Opera” Is Now Available
Libby Malin's My Own Personal Soap Opera is now available online or look for it at a bookstore near you. Publishers Weekly notes that the book is "Heavy on humor . . . Malin coaxes plenty of laughs." (more...) [...]


