Books Are Not Movies: Writing the Invisible
OnInstead of learning from books, too many fledgling writers learn to write primarily from movies, television and video games, and their writing suffers as a result.
Tag: Kurt Vonnegut
Book Review: The Sirens of Titan
OnImage via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] On one hand, I’m not even sure if I should even bother writing a review of this. Let’s see, one of the most beloved books by a beloved author everyone knows? Gee, I wonder if folks know…
Review: The Sirens of Titan
OnCover of Sirens of Titan The Sirens of Titan is Kurt Vonnegut‘s first foray into young-adult fiction — perhaps a genre he should have spent more time with, considering the success of this book. His skill at characterization is in full-force, particularly…
Book Review: Things The Grandchildren Should Know
OnCover of Things the Grandchildren Should Know [Purchase Book] The blurb from Rolling Stone that appears in the front of my copy of Things The Grandchildren Should Know calls Mark Oliver Everett (a/k/a E, of EELS) “the Kurt Vonnegut of the rock…