
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"


Hello, my name is Dyanne A., and I’m a self-published author.
January 6th, 2013
Just as the attacks themselves had little to do with America, so did America play little role in the defeat of al-Qa'ida's ideology.
January 9th, 2012
All thriller, no filler
June 27th, 2012
On 'the Republican Party's intellectual leader' and the problem with 'personhood'
October 30th, 2012
Terrence Malick's "To the Wonder"
May 12th, 2013

In defense of Kathryn Bigelow's Best Picture-nominated film
February 24th, 2013
Six writers talk about truthiness in nonfiction.
April 15th, 2012
On 'Beauty and the Beast'
October 11th, 2012
After the riots, a report from Egypt
September 27th, 2012
On "Deenie," "Tiger Eyes," "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret"
November 27th, 2012

A new literature for a new age, the 'Age of Man'
June 20th, 2012
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More