Grumpy Old Bookman

ECCLESIASTICA, MEDICA, ET DEMENTIA   as told to MICHAEL ALLEN by a young friend of his; name of Simon As I’ve grown up, I’ve become quite us...

This is the first time that I have written a piece for this blog in several years. The reason is simple: I am too old to have the time and e...

Back in July 2006, as you doubtless remember, I mentioned a well reviewed book by Robert Eggleton: Rarity from the Hollow. Well, it's st...

Loren Kantor has completed another woodcut of a famous author: this time Virginia Woolf. (For Loren's portrait of Hemingway, click here ...

You will be thrilled, indifferent, or mildly interested to know that I have now completed all seven volumes in my guides for writers series....

Just a brief note to let you know that the fifth in my series of Writer's Guides is now available. Title:  A Writer's Guide to Trad...