Anthony Panegyres on writing and reading

Currently Reading   I've just finished The House on  Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, a novella made up of poetic vignettes set i...

Books Out of Print I am not supposed to walk much—I do a little—but sport has become more of the seated viewer variety. And as for ...

Writers [on Writing], Carolyn Chute "I am not much of a reader. No time." After I simmered down I began to value Chute...

I've read that Ben Payne has been editor at ASIM and Aurealis, and co-editor (with Alisa Krasonstein) of the Ditmar Award winning  2012 ...

Writers on Writing [Rosellen Brown] On characters: "... our first obligation is to create interesting, suggestive, realistic, possi...

Writers [on Writing]: Anne Bernay s "No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep."

Writers [on Writing]: Saul Bellow On reading literary novels in the electronic age: ‘The little evidence we have suggests that...

Writers [on Writing]: Rick Bass "The wild landscape becomes the widened boundaries of my life."

Aurealis Award Finalist: 'Reading Coffee' Euphoric? Gracious? Humbled? A 'yes' to all three on being announced a finalis...

Writers [on Writing]: Russell Banks In his comical essay, Russell Banks uses a personal anecdote to convey the idea that we spin fict...

Andre Aciman, Alexandria and my Pappou Andre Aciman is a displaced Alexandrian. My Pappou on my father's side was the same, albeit it ...

'Writers [on Writing]. Collected Essays from THE NEW YORK TIMES' There is no mythical spring that all writers draw from. Some w...

A Tiny Bit Political: Economic Reform and Mining I saw some great acts at the Perth Writers' Festival over the weekend and it's...

Recent Reads: Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe and  Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham  On Claw of the Conciliator' by Gene W...

24 'standout' short stories from my 2011 reading In 2011, I read 96 short stories, many of them longer short stories and novelettes...