Beamed from Within: On Harlan Ellison’s “Greatest Hits”
Reality is not always probable, or likely. —Jorge Luis Borges CALLING THE GROUCHY and godly Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) a “science fiction writer,” pegging him as a single-genre scribe, is an inaccurate and constraining description. Granted, he wrote a lot of sci-fi, much of which remains redoubtable, replete with indelible, iniquitous, uproarious images conjured by his […]
9 Books to Spark Your Creativity
Photo by Cathryn Lavery via Unsplash Of all the craft books I’ve read in my life, perhaps none have stuck with me quite as clearly as the assertion, at the beginning of Mary Oliver’s A Poetry Handbook , that, rather than waiting for inspiration to strike, an aspiring writer must sit down regularly for an […]