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In baseball terminology, they would say he is a first-ballot Hall-of-Famer, but I just don’t see it. I mean, literally...

(It’s a superhero story, so you have to go with it at a certain point, which is basically the opposite of what I am doing here.)

It’s true that if you trace the plots, characters, and tropes of popular fiction back, you find the same ideas threaded throughout history.

I have often heard that it is better to be lucky than good. And that may not be that far off.

They all give me that look like, “Okay, Greg. We get it. You write. Can we get back to the game now?”

Now what happens in the King Midas story is that he overdoes it with touching things and loses his own life.

The American president has become the most important person in the country, not only for his executive power, he is and has always been the

The internet no longer allows for cultural phenomena to happen within the literature community.

I don’t think the question of COVID in a piece is necessarily about COVID.

Why do you think the presidents always write bestsellers or famous celebrities write them too? Because they have the money to buy enough

We ate all the candy bars, had all the turkey, and drank all the eggnog, and now we have to talk about starting over again!

Let’s take this from what you are reading right now. As soon as this is published, I am not sure that I really own this.

This is the last best-of lists for the stuff on the blog. This one features all of the op-ed pieces that we wrote.

Many writers, in many languages and cultures, have pondered the nature of character creation.

We all love him. He gives us presents. He has a catchy song. He is always jolly. Oh, and he is also a cowboy. Did I mention that?

You can be bad and influence society. From the Devil to Hitler to The Joker, bad guys have an awful habit of changing our world.

Every time there is a significant point in Scrooge’s life, he is blamed for it, for no reason at all.

I try to keep a level head by remembering all the great things that the pandemic offered me.

“So…. What’s up with the Devil? He’s such an asshole, right?”

The reader, the bloodline to a writer’s success and the one who decides whether a writer eats or starves, can’t read every word.