He's written some of rock's most finely observed songs not just about his journey through life (from the prematurely wise "These Days," penned when he was 16 years old, through more recent songs like "The Night Inside Me"), but has also ventured into social critiques ("Lawyers in Love...
Back in England I made the most of my last few days with mum and pops, and said my goodbyes on Valentine’s Day as I made my way to London in yet another fierce and ‘orrible storm. After an evening of good chat and good food at Yolanda and Juanan’s we were up early for our ...
We often assume that the topic of written discourse changes from paragraph to paragraph, “topic sentence” to “topic sentence.” By contrast, I’m using documents (volumes) that are much larger than a paragraph, so how is it possible to produce topics as narrowly defined as this one?
since it’s hard to believe that a woman actually wrote Christian Grey as a hero and (as many have pointed out) the whole thing sounds like it was written by a teenager.
(I’m warning you now that I’m not holding back on some of this, so if you’re squeamish or modest, skip down to the paragraph that says “Safe to Read.”) I’m a pretty savvy and connected gal. It’s part of my job, but I also just really like most people. So even ...
But Bernoulli did no such thing, choosing instead to mysteriously bring the whole of Ars Conjectandi to a sudden, unexpected close with a rueful sounding paragraph on Fatalism. “…if eventually the observations of all should be continued through all eternity (from prob...
We also can no longer compare our writing to classic works or even books written 30 years ago that started slow and found marketplace success. Today’s novels — especially debut novels — must grab readers from the first page, the first paragraph, even the first sentence.” Ali Luke: ...
It had been purportedly written by a just-turned-21 “Sarah Duncan”, who “can finally go to clubs and see bands”, and who was a young woman who was exercising this right judiciously. “My goal within this ‘zine is to scope out all the local bands and try to give a fair account...
especially a writer of his ilk. He compared me to the great Mary Renault. The first historical fiction book that I ever read (The Persian Boy) was written by Renault. Here’s Angus’s blurb forSpartans at the Gatesthat will grace the dust jacket of the hardcover that comes out June 24t...
especially a writer of his ilk. He compared me to the great Mary Renault. The first historical fiction book that I ever read (The Persian Boy) was written by Renault. Here’s Angus’s blurb forSpartans at the Gatesthat will grace the dust jacket of the hardcover that comes out June 24t...