Donald Mengay

Among the many benefits that novel-writing affords a person is an awareness that a literary work is a mirror of sorts, reflecting as much...

When I first started teaching, decades ago, I followed the convention of many of my colleagues and read in class for the story. I...

When I set out to write the novel that became The Lede to Our Undoing, I wanted to revisit the experience of falling in love with another...

Although I suspect the idea was circulating around the entire ancient world, in and outside of what we call Greece today, it was Plato...

To say diversity is strength isn't a mere meme or pretty saying. It's a fact. Genetically speaking a heterogeneous line is a healthy one;...

The Lede is based on several assumptions linked to race. One of the most fundamental is that the US has never been a real democracy, and...

One of my objections to contemporary literature on the market today, including fiction, is that it largely overlooks the literary...

In the 1990s, at the same time I was sharing work with the poet, Lynn McGee, I was teaching linked courses with a professor in the...

The process took decades really. In a sense I began conceiving the story in the early 1990s. In the '80s I'd studied creative writing in...