Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It

by Steven Pressfield

American audiences love movies about long-shot successes—Rocky or Rudy or Free Willy.

Russian movies plumb far greater depths.

America is adolescent;

The Russian people have suffered famines and pestilence; they have endured defeat in war, violent revolution and more violent counterrevolution and all the personal and collective calamities that go with political and social upheavals on a monumental scale. The Mupp...

A novel is like an acid trip.

For the first forty-five minutes you’re thinking, “Hmm, this isn’t so intense. I can handle this.”

Then you look down at your hands and flames are co...