What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is a 1981 collection of short stories by American writer Raymond Carver, as well as the… Read More »Ultimate Slice of Life Books – Book 3 – What We Talk About When We Talk About Love – Raymond Carver
Follow @authormanik, like, and forward for the ultimate list of “Slice of Life” books. These are award-winning books that critics and readers have acclaimed. Book… Read More »Ultimate List of Slice of Life Books – 1: Catcher in the Rye
Less Than Zero is the slice-of-life narration of four weeks of Clay’s life. Clay is back from his school on vacation to his hometown of… Read More »Book Review – Less Than Zero
The Goldfinch is truly a Dickensian novel, as many people have already observed. It is the odyssey of Theo, his coming of age story, and… Read More »Book Review: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” is slow burn as slow burn can be. The characters develop extremely slowly, over pages of back story, descriptions of… Read More »Book Review – The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Writerly life (Creative life in general) Capote : A movie that explores the time in life of Truman Capote when he wrote “In cold blood.… Read More »Movies for writers and other creatives
“Many happy returns of the day, dude. Look what I bought for you?” “Oh! “Manhattan Beach”! I was so looking forward to read this.” “I… Read More »My GF is a LitFic fanatic! My BF is a romance worm!
An Ode to Friendship Anyway, I always loved it when we played The Doors, I absolutely adored the voice of Jim Morrison.Guess what, I do… Read More »An Ode to Friendship
Though all forms of writing are unique, poetry stands out. Mainly because it is so commercially unsuccessful, and anyone who writes it has to be… Read More »Significant and Heartfelt
There is world, vast and uncaringLonely and beautiful and fearsome,meaningless and undying, compassionateand tuneful, inharmonious and barren.You decide to reside on mars,just for the sake… Read More »Aliens