The Power of Her Pen

In 11 short essays by some of the world's premier novelists, this volume explores a simple question: why write? Contributor Paul Auster may put the query best: "Surely it is an odd way to spend your life-sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper." In response, Pico Iyer delivers a moving account of a Burmese trishaw driver living under political oppression, who for years composed (by candlelight) letters to the author, many of which were censored. Orhan Pamuk also explores this intense human hunger for stories and creative freedom with an anecdote from his March 1985 tour of Turkey, on which he introduced Arthur Miller and Harold Pinter to Turkish writers who had suffered "repression, cruelty and outright evil" in a military coup. Francine Prose, on the other hand, makes a lively attempt to separate literature from politics (in which she cops to her own political biases in her choice of examples). The disparate voices produce a complex of reasons that drive writers, though all agree that, as observed by Morrison (wearing both editor and contributor caps), it's a "bleak, unlivable, insufferable existence… when we are deprived of artwork."

The Wheel of Time (WoT to fans) is a series of epic fantasy novels written by the late American author James Oliver Rigney, Jr., under the pen name Robert Jordan. Originally planned as a six-book series, it now consists of eleven published novels, with one more book to come, which will be published in three volumes. is the prequel novel that originally appeared as a novella in the anthology edited by noted SF author Robert Silverberg. Jordan expanded it and it was published as a standalone novel in January 2004. was produced as a series of comic books planned for eight issues by Dabel Brothers (DB Pro) and published by Red Eagle Entertainment. The first issue was published in July 2005. However Red Eagle canceled the series in 2006 after 5 issues, citing delays and changes to the creative team on the DB Pro end as reasons. Dabel Brothers formed its own publishing company and continued with the publication of New Spring in 2009. The current run of New Spring is now at issue #7, released August 19, 2009. There seems to be no tentative date for the last and final issue in this series.

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