Reading and Writing

Writers are ducking their calling in Surveillance State Amerika: “A new report from the PEN Center and the FDR Group entitled “Chilling Eff...

"From Reader’s Digest to Cliff’s Notes to No Fear Shakespeare, simplified novels have infiltrated American society over generations. Th...

“Even when a country is not free, its writers are free.” It is, therefore, important for a writer to “speak the truth and keep the conscienc...

"...all literature is civic action: Because it is memory. All literature preserves something which otherwise would die away with the fl...

"The suppression of literature is an ancient tradition that probably started with the invention of writing and which thrives today all ...

Writers the world over can relate to this. Readers may not be aware that writers write what publishers publish, not the other way around. To...