The news of John Fain's passing came, as so many things do these days, in a social media post.   I'd known John for a little over a ...

I am a terrible alumnus.  This, I will freely admit.  While my education at the University of Virginia profoundly enriched and set direction...

It had been dark for a very long time. There'd been pain, and it was everywhere.  He'd snarled and raged at it, but it was every...

"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.  For the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones....

It's been a bad week for writers I respect and enjoy.  First came the news from Scotland that Iain Banks, one of my very favorite har...