Author: Ron Koertge

I love movies and see dozens of them a year, lots of them in an actual theatre vs. DVD. But I was watching “Walking and Talking” the other day on IFC (I’d seen it before and admired it then) and started to ask...

No, not Buddy the Poetry Cat who’s a pain in the ass this morning. Another kind of buddy. The writing kind.I started to think about this when I hear from students or friends who are floundering. You know I don’t...

Most of us get this question and when I answer, as I sometimes do, “The newspaper,” I’m often met with incredulity. They legitimately ask, “‘Stoner & Spaz’ came out of the newspaper? No,...

Now do I have your attention? I’ve been meaning to muse about this for awhile now. Only about porn tangentially. More about an aside in a movie review that said what pornography is usually accused of is its tendency to...

I sat on a prize-panel recently. A lot of us have done this; everybody reads 60 books or so and one of them wins. I disagreed with most of the other people on the panel. They liked stories with social purpose; I like gorgeous...