Should parents censor their children’s reading? That’s one of the questions brought up by the storm over the Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Meghan Cox Gurdon on the current fashion in YA lit. Gurdon’s review of the genre, called Darkness Too Visible, called out publishers and writers for — Read more…
Two recent news controversies have come up surround women and writing. In one, famed author V.S. Naipaul opined that women write feminine tosh, and no female writer is his equal. From the Guardian: The author, who was born in Trinidad, said this was because of women’s “sentimentality, the narrow view Read more…
I’ve submitted the screenplay and now can forget about it until whenever the results start coming back. This is a relief, a lifted weight. I was thinking tonight, okay, now I can start on a new project, and move forward. At Cryptopolis tonight we critiqued a chunk of one member’s Read more…