Category: Fiction

September 27, 2017 /

When Barbara Stanwyck became a Ziegfeld Girl…

September 6, 2017 /

Imagine a playwright writing a character four centuries ago that is still vividly familiar to us today… William Kuhn

September 5, 2017 /

Free! On Kindle! You won’t be able to put it down…

September 5, 2017 /

“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering — because you can’t take it all in at once.” Audrey Hepburn

September 4, 2017 /

“If you want a thing well done, get a couple of old broads to do it.” Bette Davis

July 29, 2017 /

Two rarely seen stories by Lillian Hellman

Ms. Hellman wrote these when she was 23-24ish. I think at that time she was divorced, working at MGM as a reader, and had just met the love of her life, Dashiell Hammett. The stories are the first flexing of her literary muscle. They were published once, in a magazine…

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July 28, 2017 /

“There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs…” Raymond Chandler

July 23, 2017 /

“A little laughter in grim times is better than Xanax.” an interview with author, William Kuhn

July 22, 2017 /

“Her being in the papers had been forgotten about, or the people who worked at the church pretended not to know…”