Monthly Archives: June 2011

by bonalibro

Is U.S. business abandoning the middle class?

In a Reuters editorial last week, Chrystia Vreeland raised this vitally important question concerning the loyalty of corporations to the nation that licensed and financed them, gave them the rights of personhood, nurtured them to maturity, and permitted them to accrue more wealth even as the commonwealth declined. My original comment didn't make it onto the Reuters website. It quoted my novel, Banana Republican Blues, which is all about the decline and fall of the once great American economy, Read more [...]
by bonalibro

On Persona and POV in Literary Fiction

I see many writers complain about single character POV. Some chafe at the limitation of it, while others don't understand what it's about, and write blithely in any old POV. As the author of their characters, they may feel omniscient and want to exercise godlike power by getting into several characters' minds. This is fine if one does it correctly, but too often it is incorrectly done and only confuses the unfortunate reader. I prefer to be very disciplined about POV because (to me) omniscience is Read more [...]