Contemporary Culture Archives

Sit down with your protagonist and listen to this music.

Almost a year ago my post offered links to music from YouTube, Get Your Free Music Sample Here. Then in[…]

No, I’m not writing about college presidents and billionaire wives’ dissertations. I’m writing about plagiarism as plot in some of[…]

I belong to two book clubs. One, I started during the pandemic, it’s very informal, and we meet once every[…]

We’re writers and readers so of course we love words. Maybe too much sometimes? I remember a New Yorker cartoon[…]

For the past year and change I’ve worked on a new novel. I loved the story. I loved writing it.[…]

The British environmental activist group, Just Stop Oil, calls for the UK to stop licensing new oil, gas or coal[…]

Authors have different avenues for research depending on the topic. I write contemporary fiction, and my preference is to interview[…]

Last month I wrote to you about characters having music identities. This month I thought we’d look at the different ways[…]

The world seems to be going to the dogs. We are slowly, or maybe not so slowly, frying our world.[…]

Michael Connelly, author of the Harry Bosch series, spoke about his career and this protagonist in particular, at ThrillerFest earlier[…]