Ambrose Bierce, Forgotten Books (2012), 300 pages My stepfather gave me Tales of Soldiers and Civilians as a Christmas gift. Dan read my sci-fi novel, Rise of the Liberators, and I suspect he wanted to encourage me to write more… Read More ›
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Guest commentary: Smart phones are making students stupid
Recently my American Literature high school students studied plot reversals, the unexpected twists that occur in fiction. We read and analyzed “Solipsist,” a one-page story published in 1954 by Fredric Brown. In the story, a character named Walter B. Jehovah… Read More ›
The La-La Lander 