TRIVIA! SEE IF YOU RECOGNIZE FAMOUS PASSAGES FROM COLUMBIA AUTHORS.         Who Wrote What?Ten New York passages by Columbia alumni. Can you match the quotations and their...

Join Columbia University School of the Arts for dynamic discussions, screenings and performances that celebrate the world’s innovators in art and culture.   This fall join Columbia University School of...

Hi, folks!  The Brooklyn Book Festival is coming up next Sunday, September 21.  I've been before and it's an event-packed day with lots of authors, workshops and events.  A few...

Connection, Earthy and Ineffable   Margaret Van Every HOLDING HANDS WITH A STRANGER Librophilia (Tallahassee): 2014   Reviewed by Ellis Avery    Japanese innovators love to claim ancient precedent: when...

One of the most amazing things Natalie Harnett told the Columbia Fiction Foundry at her joint presentation with her literary agent, Kent Wolf, on September 6th was that she spent...

Character Sketch Template Ralph White Best selling author, Columbia MFA, and Fiction Foundry guest, Jean Kwok was kind enough to share her character sketch with me.  I modified it somewhat...

2011 Comes to Life in a Collection of Urban Haiku by Ellis Avery Review of Broken Rooms by poet Margaret Van Every There has been a recent trend in the US to...

What do Computers think of Hemingway? Part 2 on Successful Literary Style Posted by David Gulley on Monday, August 11th 2014    Continuing my series on computer science and literary...

Whiteout Ken Follett   Let’s imagine Mr. Follett as an undergraduate student bringing the manuscript of Whiteout to a professor in his university’s writing program.   “Loved your book, Ken.”...