The World as Seen by Olivia

My novel Andalusia depicts one instance of ethnic cleansing and underscores how such campaigns of national purification are antithetical to democracy.

The art of crafting poems creates harmonious order despite the chaos and dissonance of the tumultuous period 2021-2025.

Too many book clubs devolve into food fests and social chitchat. Organization is the key to ensure the focus stays on discussion of the book.

Enter the engaging mind of painter and thinker Asle over the seven days before Christmas in contemporary Norway.

The idea for a novel often has a long incubation period. When and how was the germ of the story first planted in my mind?

Is the United States that Walt Whitman describes in Democratic Vistas that much different from the United States of today?

In the face of the popular distaste for poetry, do I dare confess that I enjoy it and actually have written ten poetry books?

If you read one book about Vietnam, read this novel written from the perspective of a North Vietnamese family spanning decades of upheaval.

Each reading of this classic rewards with new delights and insights.

A spin-off prequel to Jane Eyre, this novel deserves reading for Rhys’s masterful creation of mood and many-layered themes relevant to contemporary life.

The steady barrage of toxic political news had me feeling exhausted until a program of uplifting reading helped cleanse my mind and spirit of the negativity.

The perennial question that successful authors receive is “How do you deal with writer’s block?” I contend it does not exist; it’s a figment of the imagination. If it exists, there are multiple ways to make it not exist at all.