Ambition Like A Liquid Ruby Stains.

From 1968 On, I Was Pretty Much The Black, Gay Sf Writer.

The Pulp Hero, Though He May Be A Renegade, Is A Guy Who Doesn't Feel. Anything. Ever. And For The Adolescent Male - Pummeled By Emotions Left And Right, Whether Arising From Sexuality Or Resulting From His Necessary Encounters With Authority - This Hero Is A Blessing, A Relief And A Release. The World He Lives In, Where Feelings Are Totally Under Control, Looks To The Adolescent Boy Like Heaven! This Hero's Lack Of Feeling - Like Star Trek's Spock - Is What Allows Him To Be A Genius, Or Allows Him To Shoot The Bad Guys And/or Aliens, Without A Quiver To His Lip.

How We Treat Our Invalids - Our Mad, Our Physically Or Mentally Compromised Family Members - Does Tell You Something About Who We Are Politically, Historically, Culturally.

Good Writing Is Clear. Talented Writing Is Energetic. Good Writing Avoids Errors. Talented Writing Makes Things Happen In The Reader's Mind - -vividly, Forcefully.

It’s A Very New, Not To Mention Vulgar, Idea That The Spectator’s Experience Should Be Identical To, Or Even Have Anything To Do With, The Artist’s.