Category: Professor Wu’s Rulebook

Opinion pieces; blog posts; articles

  • Attention all book lovers! Ever wanted to own your own bookstore? Well, now you can – and through a writing competition, no less! From My Shelf is a small, independently owned bookstore in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, USA. Year round, they welcome in-store shoppers to browse the more than 60,000 new and gently used books that they…

  • The New Yorker fiction podcast has a great episode up right now, with Lorrie Moore joining Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Naked Ladies,” by Antonya Nelson, from a 1992 issue of the magazine. https://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/thenewyorker/?share=1#file=/audio/json/837438/ Here’s an excerpt from Nelson’s excellent short story below: “Laura Laughlin, 17, and her family attended the annual Easter frolic of…

  • Let’s not beat around the prehistoric bush. Dinosaur erotica exists, and it’s time you knew about it. Now, there’s a real chance the two types of people reading this article will fall into extremely binary categories: those who have read dinosaur erotica, and those who are now a matter of seconds away from finding out…

  • If you’re reading this, it’s likely because you are as fascinated as we are by the quite frankly insane world of dinosaur erotica. We’ve already compiled a detailed introduction to the sub-genre that will help get you up to speed with the scaly, sexy goings on of this monster erotica sub-genre. Now, we’re going one…

  • We’ve delved deep into the frankly bonkers world of dinosaur erotica as part of our ‘sex in fiction’ series. Now, not only can you find out all you need to know about this literary phenomenon through our in-depth introductory guide, but you can also get an insightful glimpse into this monster erotica sub-genre of literary…

  • “Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one,” literary giant F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his fifteen-year old daughter in 1936. Sixteen years later, an aspiring young author, born in that year, called Alice Quinn reached out to T.S. Eliot – by that point one of the most famous writers in the…

  • I don’t have anything to hide I think Viagra is wonderful I definitely don’t need Viagra If you need it, Viagra is great But I just don’t need it Sometimes I wish there was an anti-viagra Something that had the opposite effect I’m not bragging I’m just lucky: I don’t need Viagra ~ Anonymous  A note…

  • Human beings have been reporting on wars and battles almost as long as there have been wars and battles (which may mean they have always been, if you are to accept the idea that mankind has an innate inclination toward violence). The earliest cave paintings depicted our forebears on great hunts; and oral histories of…

  • News of the death of Ursula Le Guin at the age of 88 has hit the literary world hard. The sharp-minded, large-spirited, incomparably brilliant Le Guin  brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy, and for many stood as a triumphant champion of the written word – and books in…

  • It’s been said before and will be said again; but one of the most – if not the most – important parts of writing is re-writing. Writing often isn’t about inspiration or waiting for your muse to arrive – it’s about getting down to it and finally actually writing that novel you’ve been working on…