Words choose their authors.

"Adults are either incompetent or evil." —A Series of Unfortunate Events

"Adults are either incompetent or evil." —A Series of Unfortunate Events

While a majority yearns for the immersion that a full-length novel can deliver, such immersion can also be provided by stories that are shorter than usual.

Image via Wikimedia Commons Nobody can write a book. That is, nobody can write a book at a stroke — unless aided by aggressively mind-invigorating substances, and even then they seldom pull it off.

Eman Omar's essay on David Goodis and his avant-garde work in the world of noir crime-fiction.