Author: Ron Koertge

Dystopia It sounds like something Tums might fix, but it’s really a popular topic for movies and books. How long can it be before there’s a ride in some theme park where grubby, goggled survivors with sawed-off shotguns charge...

But first a little self-promotion. In the new “The Horn Book” there are four very short pieces about reading-as-a-child. Mine’s one of them. Take a look if you’re interested.Now about the dark. I go to...

One of Ms. Spark’s characters says, “To make a character ring true it needs must be in some way contradictory, somewhere a paradox.” “Needs must be,” huh. That aside, there’s something about...

Yesterday (or the day before) I wrote about keeping our promises to ourselves. Or giving up certain illusions about who we are as writers and what we do.This morning I’m thinking about how much more we could do if we just...

Perhaps this should start with a Whoops! If the preceding post has two or three words, just delete it. I must have hit the wrong button.Here we go again: the title doesn’t refer to the biblical Word, but to the one in...