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Mark Twain on First Getting Published (1906)

October 29, 2023 by Richard Leave a Comment

Mark Twain on First Getting Published (1906) My experiences as an author began early in 1867. I came to New York from San Francisco in the first month of that year and presently Charles H. Webb, whom I had known in San Francisco as a reporter on The Bulletin, and afterward editor of The Californian, […]

Introduction from Short Story Writing

March 15, 2022 by Richard Leave a Comment

The following is taken from the book Short Story Writing: A Practical Treatise on the Art of  the Story Story by Charles Raymond Barrett, Ph. B. (1898) Some of the advice still works, but it is a look at how different writing was in the late 1800s. Some say that the Short Story is the […]

THE STORY-TELLER AND HIS ART by Sir Richard Steele

March 14, 2022 by Richard Leave a Comment

Sir Richard Steele

THE STORY-TELLER AND HIS ART by Sir Richard Steele I have often thought that a story-teller is born, as well as a poet. It is, I think, certain, that some men have such a peculiar cast of mind, that they see things in another light than men of grave dispositions. Men of a lively imagination […]

Robert Louis Stevenson on Walt Whitman’s Style

March 26, 2021 by Richard 1 Comment

A note from the editor Note from editor: I am going through and updating some of these classic articles/essays on writing. Some of these, are just so amazing. They are pieces of literary history. This particular piece is Robert Louis Stevenson’s review of Walt Whitman’s writing style. It’s a unique look from one famous mind […]

Of Truth by Francis Bacon

November 9, 2020 by Richard Leave a Comment

What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be, that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, […]

Central Park Walks and Talks by Walt Whitman

November 9, 2020 by Richard Leave a Comment

I visit Central Park now almost every day, sitting, or slowly rambling, or riding around. The whole place presents its very best appearance this current month

Walt Whitman on Thanksgiving

November 1, 2020 by Richard 1 Comment

A large family supper party, a night or two ago, with voices and laughter of the young, mellow faces of the old, and a by-and-by pause in the general joviality.

How to Become a Werewolf by Elliott O’Donnell

October 2, 2020 by Richard 3 Comments

How to Become a Werewolf AS I have already stated, in some people lycanthropy is hereditary; and when it is not hereditary it may be acquired through the performance of certain of the rites ordained by Black Magic. For the present I can only deal with the more general features of these rites (which vary […]

I Love You, I Love You, I love You

July 14, 2019 by Richard Leave a Comment

This is a Love Letter to Elibezabeth Barret from Robert Browning that was sent January 10 1845. They would be married in 1846. It is interesting to see how “forward” Robert is being. He is very much pushing for his soon to be bride to take him seriously. She did not believe he could love […]

Mark Twain is a Slob by Willa Cather

June 12, 2019 by Richard 1 Comment

If there is anything which should make an American sick and disgusted at the literary taste of his country, and almost swerve his allegiance to his flag it is that controversy between Mark Twain

Shakespeare Sucks! by Leo Tolstoy

June 3, 2019 by Richard 13 Comments

Shakespeare Sucks! by Leo Tolstoy

I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having

The Art of Fiction by Henry James

May 14, 2019 by Richard Leave a Comment

The Art of Fiction by Henry James: I should not have affixed so comprehensive a title to these few remarks, necessarily wanting in any completeness, upon a subject the full consideration of which would carry us far, did I not seem to discover a pretext

When I Met Oscar Oscar Wilde by W. B. Yeats

May 12, 2019 by Richard Leave a Comment

This is Yeats meeting Wilde is probably one of the biggest literary meetings in history, but we forget. Writers today don’t know what it means to read the greats sometimes.

MY PASSION FOR FERRIES by Walt Whitman

May 4, 2019 by Richard Leave a Comment

This is a wonderfully short piece written by Walt Whitman. Honestly the more you know about Whitman the more interesting this subject becomes. The essay was written in 1892.  Living in Brooklyn or New York city from this time forward, my life, then, and still more the following years, was curiously identified with Fulton ferry, […]

Twain’s Letter About Edgar Allan Poe

April 30, 2019 by Richard 2 Comments

To W. D. Howells, in New York: STORMFIELD, REDDING, CONN., Jan.  18, ’09. Dear Howells, I have to write a line, lazy as I am, to say how your Poe article delighted me; and to say that I am in agreement with substantially all you say about his literature. To me his prose is unreadable—like […]

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Winners for the 2023 Souls of Darkness 50 Word Halloween Story Contest

October 31, 2023 By Richard 2 Comments

All of these stories will be published in our digital print issue. Christa Planko has won a promotional package from our site.  We want to say thank you to all the writers who submitted their work. This year had fewer entries, but many were very high quality. 

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December 8, 2023 By Richard Leave a Comment

The Day After Christmas by Joyce Kilmer OF course, people still ride on the elevated railways. But not the people who used to be taken over by their mothers from Jersey City on the Cortlandt Street Ferry about once every month, and then up Sixth Avenue by the elevated en route for the shops. These […]

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