By: Michael C. Keith Authors have always faced a tough path: chronic rejection, no job security, and low pay . . . if you’re lucky. –– Ron Charles Shad Newburg was excited that his publisher was arranging a regional…
By: William T. Hathaway My grandma forgets things. She’s got old-timers and mixes stuff up. She’s a sweet old gal but starting to lose it upstairs. She’s living with my parents now that she can’t take care of herself so…
Writer and former publishing executive who co-founded Common Sense Media, Liz Perle died on Thursday at her home in San Francisco. She was 59, reports New York Times. Liz died due to breast cancer. Perle began her career in 1981…
By: Zunayet Ahammed I I saw you today In an autumn dress full of juice Like white clouds of the Sky To chuckle at me quietly Like a girl of 17 who feels woozy Looking inside and inside Not thinking…
By: Sri Ram My dear stinged bee, its your nectar writing this… If you think my nectar is impure then you are wrong… I might have fallen in love with him once but even he could not stand the weight…
Wrapped in the gown of a mystery novel, ‘The Secretive Six’ by Saurabh Mathur does not in fact come true to its claims. The story revolves around an IIT professor’s death which turns out to be a murder. Although the author…
By: Rishitha Shetty He stands with one leg, on the…………ocean’s edge and the other …………on the mountain top. Woman, man, beast or God- walk below my thigh, he says. His head, cushioned in clouds; his eyelids, a shroud on the fires…
By: Rishitha Shetty She’s ten years in limbs and…….seventeen in parenthesis. Kairu scratches the velvet of the ground, with teeth knitted in the jute of a brown-pink mouth, stretched to reach the farthest corner of the face and touch- the curve…
Most of us still remember the famous Bollywood movie, Aashiqui. The actor was Rahul Roy who rocked the silverscreen with his amazing acting and chubby looks. Today Rahul Roy is not there in the limelight. But we remember him. Against…
Salman Rushdie has always been a controversy master but has written several controversially great novels such as Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children. Despite his ability to court controversies, he has been able to manifest a versatile author in him through his great…