Most so-called "epic" novels are the stuff of motion picture blockbusters: tragic love stories, diabolical villains, great battles with gigantic armies colliding upon endless fl at plains of death. Yet in the real world, for most people, the greatest battles of their lives are the ones fought inside their own heads--and the villains are creatures both self-created and self-nurtured.
Meet Charlie Barnes. Age 24, bright, college-educated, talented ... and a failure. Now he's back home in Los Angeles after a disastrous two-year pilgrimage to New York and back. No more time to fail. Time to...
Most so-called "epic" novels are the stuff of motion picture blockbusters: tragic love stories, diabolical villains, great battles with gigantic armie...
Most so-called epic novels are the stuff of motion picture blockbusters: tragic love stories, diabolical villains, great battles with gigantic armies colliding upon endless flat plains of death. Yet in the real world, for most people, the greatest battles of their lives are the ones fought inside their own heads and the villains are creatures both self-created and self-nurtured.
Meet Charlie Barnes. Age 24, bright, college-educated, talented and a failure. Now he s back home in Los Angeles after a disastrous two-year pilgrimage to New York and back. No more time to fail. Time to give it...
Most so-called epic novels are the stuff of motion picture blockbusters: tragic love stories, diabolical villains, great battles with gigantic armies ...
There has always been a lot of confusion and misconception regarding the short-story. What exactly is it? What exactly defines it? And if a true "literary artiste" is capable of churning out a whole novel, why waste time on a bunch of stories in the first place?
C. Bradford Eastland, author of the groundbreaking novel "Where Gods Gamble," answers all these questions and more in his masterwork collection of short fiction, ""L.A. Journal"."
Throughout the twenty-two stories of this nostalgic, regionally driven volume, Eastland the artist's lifelong mission becomes clear; to leave...
There has always been a lot of confusion and misconception regarding the short-story. What exactly is it? What exactly defines it? And if a true "l...
There has always been a lot of confusion and misconception regarding the short-story. What exactly is it? What exactly defines it? And if a true "literary artiste" is capable of churning out a whole novel, why waste time on a bunch of stories in the first place?
C. Bradford Eastland, author of the groundbreaking novel "Where Gods Gamble," answers all these questions and more in his masterwork collection of short fiction, ""L.A. Journal"."
Throughout the twenty-two stories of this nostalgic, regionally driven volume, Eastland the artist's lifelong mission becomes clear; to leave...
There has always been a lot of confusion and misconception regarding the short-story. What exactly is it? What exactly defines it? And if a true "l...
