To commence as a writer for the pulp-magazines is no advantage; nor is writing film scripts in Hollywood, decade after decade, generally to be recommended for those who would be men of letters. Such was Ray Bradbury’s background. He had the advantage, however, of never attending college—which salutary neglect preserved him from many winds of [...]
(An Inadequate Response to Dr. Brad Birzer) There is probably a board-game (and some of you may identify one) in which opponents are given different capabilities and limitations. Unlike chess, where opponents have identical numbers of pieces that are the same for each side and are played to one common set of rules, there may [...]
“First of all no art, and particularly and especially no literary art, can exist in a vacuum. We are , in in practice, creatures of divers interests, and in many of our ordinary interests there is not obvious coherence.” (598) “I do not suppose that there ever has been, or will be, a critic of [...]