Novels Spark Revival In USSR

I’m sure the author wouldn’t want to hear this, but for me the most memorable part of his book was a footnote—  The footnote told how, in the 1970s, journalist Malcolm Muggeridge was interviewing Anatoly Kuznetsov, a Russian writer who had defected to England from the...

Stories Are Sacred

“STORIES ARE SACRED,” according to Leonard Sweet in his book, Soul Salsa. “Storytelling is the most sacred of professions. Stories are what makes the soul healthy or ill, saved or damned. Prozac is really nothing more than a story drug that empties your...

How Much Do You Pay For Friends?

Some years ago an ad appeared in the San Francisco Guardian. It read:  Our lives are filled with emptiness, desperation, and misery. We want friends. We pay $9.99 an hour for friendship. Please tell us how pretty we look. Intrigued, a journalist responded to the...