There are, by my count, three general categories of locations in fiction —  real places, fake places that could be real, and fake places that could never be real. In the first category, real places, examples are the London setting of many Dicken’s novels such as “Oliver Twist,” and, on the opposite side of the…

I’ve never cared for the word “blog.”  Never cared for the sound of the word, that is.  I have no objection at all to the idea of a blog, which seems a perfectly innocuous form of writing.  I once had a couple of acquaintances who blogged because they were chronically ill, and it was less…

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