Steven Riddle (at his superb blog) offers readers (including me) this wonderful discovery: The Library of America has been posting short stories (and other short works) for readers. Check it out through Steven’s site, which you can access here.

Lonnie Hicks, in his blog, is tackling the issue of how to write the great American novel. An ambitious project indeed. Intended to be part of his outline chapters for his new book on this topic, Hicks takes us through a mini-course with concrete information, suggestions and exercises.

Here is the link to a recent exchange between me and another reviewer (Edward Champion) on the occasion of his Chicago newspaper review of a Gail Godwin book. (You may wish to access the review itself within Mr. Champion’s blog in order to understand more completely my initial comments and all that followed.)