Alex HiamFeb 245 minThe Banjo-Lesson ProblemThoughts on the Life of Henry Ossawa Tanner for Black History Month Henry Ossawa Tanner is known for paintings of so-called “Negro Life”...
Alex HiamFeb 94 minWriting is Simply About the StoryWe’re taught the rules of fiction in school, things like plotting the story arc and developing the characters and setting. Teachers often...
Alex HiamFeb 33 minDon’t be an Idiom!The cut of the pen can give life or take it, but when it comes to great writing, no idiom can fake it. I’ve ‘had it up to here’ with...
Alex HiamJan 263 minA Time For Heroes?I love an epic adventure in which a plucky hero combats an implacably evil foe—the dark in Dark is Rising, Voldemort in Harry Potter, the...
Alex HiamDec 14, 20217 minThe Orthodox Species Goes ExtinctThe journalist Elizabeth Winkler wrote a controversial article for The Atlantic in which she argued that Shakespeare didn’t write ‘his’...
