For most of her life Megan Chance has written short stories, poetry and novels. This Washington native has written professionally over the last 14 years and has produced ten novels, most recently, An Inconvenient Wife.
This film is based on a book by Virginia Woolf by the same name, published in 1928. It is considered by some to be a mixture of fiction and biography. It’s the story of a young page named Orlando who becomes one of the Queen’s concubines. The review for this film was published 1/10/2006 at…
It’s no surprise literary fiction novels make great movies. What surprises me is the literary fiction authors themselves (or their inspiration) also make good movies. Here are three novelists and three movies depicting them
Creative talent usually comes with more than one outlet. In the case of Laura Elise Taylor, she divides her time between writing in the winter and photography during “wedding season”. This Canadian author slash photographer was born
Nellcott Is My Darling is Golda´s second book and a finalist for the 2005 Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction. Her first was a collection of short stories titled Darkness
In Havana, Cuba during 1982 high school students were required to put in time in the Tobacco fields as part of their learning and as service to the communist regime. A Girl Like Che Guevara follows the life of sixteen year old Lourdes Torres through her four month term in the School-in-the-Fields, Pinar del Rio camp.
Sweetness in the Belly was recently short listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize for fiction. This is one of Canada’s prestigious literary prizes and although Camilla did not take home the trophy
If you have one passion in life, you´re lucky. If you have two you must be blessed. Besides being a full-time writer Joyce Hackett is also a community activist with “emphasis on the active”.