A canon is not a franchise, and a franchise is not a canon.
A poem in the style of the English Renaissance:
The other day I came across a subgenre of novel that I had never heard of before: Amish romance. On one level, this…
Languages fascinate me. Mostly arbitrary sounds used as signifiers, sets of rules to…
I am a lover of free speech. I am also someone who accepts that since we must have…
I am a prescriptivist. I realize that this puts me out of step and out of tune with the majority in the…
For a writer without a contract, the job of writing is self-directed. Obvious that may be to other writers, but to the general public…
Last week, I raised my objections to the attempts in Congress to ban TikTok on the…