Despite their differences, a pristine landscape, a colorful parrot, a flawless ballet, a concert by a virtuoso musician, a painting by Rembrandt or Renoir, or simply e=mc2 are each beautiful in their own way. There’s no need to define beautiful. We know what it means. Everyone has seen it or heard it or felt it [...]
As a scientist and author, I relate to the concept of Creative Nonfiction, since science is all about truth, and scientists strive to see the natural world creatively through a fresh lens, and a writer wants an audience. So I eagerly enrolled in a workshop on Creative Nonfiction taught by Lee Gutkind, acknowledged as founder [...]
Sometimes a novel absorbs me so completely I keep turning pages to find out what happens. If the outcome satisfies me, say the boy gets the girl (or vice versa!), I’m happy. If the girl marries someone else, such as in the short story White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, I’m crushed, as if I was [...]
