101 Great Books Series: Part 4 by Umair Mirxa The 23 years in this list represent a period when J.R.R. Tolkien was at the peak of his powers. Herbert wrote Dune, Heller produced Catch-22, Le Guin treated us to A Wizard of Earthsea, and Nabokov delighted the world with Lolita. Read more…
101 Great Books Series: Part 3 by Umair Mirxa The third list in this series of 101 Great Books spans 35 years. It is the era of Joyce and Woolf, Faulkner and Steinbeck, and Hemingway and Fitzgerald. It is during these years that we were blessed with such legendary works Read more…
101 Great Books Series: Part 2 by Umair Mirxa While the first list spanned nearly four millennia, the second list of 101 Great Books is spread over a mere four decades, at 44 years. The time it takes to travel from one great work of literature to the next is Read more…
Do you write short stories and novelettes? If you’re writing fiction of less than 15,000 words, and hope to get published in anthologies and magazines, you need to always have ‘Getting Your Short Stories Published – A Guidebook’ by Steve Carr at your side. Brought to you by a master Read more…
101 Great Books Series: Part 1 by Umair Mirxa Travel through more than four thousand years of great literature with this series of ‘101 Great Books’ blog posts, and discover a lifetime’s worth of reading material written from 2100 BCE all the way to the present day. The first 101 Read more…