Interview with Author, Gilbert Cross 2015-04-13 At age 76, Gilbert Cross is a seasoned adventurer, a multicultural literary scientist, a master writer who has penned everything from espionnage novels to children’s books.
Check out his exciting spy [...]
DYLAN THOMAS 100 FESTIVAL 2014-05-22 Wales Celebrates its Rock Star Poet During His Centenary Year
The centenary celebration of Dylan Thomas’s birth (born Swansea: October 27, 1914; died New York City: November 9, 1953) – Dylan [...]
Awards: Top Ten Books Out-of-the-Mainstream 2010-09-20 Ten literary-fiction novels of the 21st century that you may not know, but should.
Now, more than ten years into the 21st century, we’ve seen the world [...]
A Powerful Carpe Diem Novel! 2009-10-31 Review of Roman Payne’s new novel: ‘Rooftop Soliloquy’
“Like Henry Miller’s ‘Tropic of Cancer’, Lord Byron’s story of Don Juan, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and a Paris Travel guide all poured [...]
Jonathan Littell 2009-10-31
Jonathan Littell Introduction to author Jonathan Littell, whose controversial novel The Kindly Ones won two French prizes.
It’s not often that writing a novel wins an author citizenship in France–or any [...]
Author of “The Wanderess” Held Captive in Morocco 2018-01-08 The author of “The Wanderess,” Roman Payne is currently forced in exile in Morocco.
Traveling in Morocco in 2017, you could lose your handbag, get swindled, or you could be held [...]
THIS SUMMER: FOR THOSE WHO LOVE TO WANDER AND WRITE 2017-05-10 New Wanderess Literary Tour & Writers’ Workshop Launches in the Mediterranean
Head to Croatia this summer to live the life of a wanderer or wanderess and create your own story in [...]
IN 2016, LITERARY AND FINE ART STILL PAY GOOD MONEY 2016-08-02 Novelist and poet, Roman Payne, gives hope to lovers of literature
By Julie Sevigny
Imagine the world when Literature was central to everyone’s lives. In the 19th Century, the father would read [...]
The Age of The Wanderess 2014-08-23 The Dawning of the Age of the Wanderess: How Modern Culture is Encouraging Young Women to Travel the World Alone and Free
“The Wanderess,” Roman Payne’s latest novel, is experiencing a [...]
From all that I saw and everywhere I wandered 2016-12-12 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“From all that I saw and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It only can be squandered.”
-Roman Payne
Roman Payne
The post From all [...]
Be there A picnic for the devil 2016-12-11 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“Be there A picnic for the devil, And Orgy for the satyr, And a wedding for the bride.”
Roman Payne
Roman Payne
The post Be there A picnic for [...]
The green-eyed angel came in less than a 2016-12-10 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“The green-eyed angel came in less than a half hour and fell docile as a lamb into my arms. We kissed and caressed, I met no [...]
I care not that this moment’s lot was 2016-12-09 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“I care not that this moment’s lot was thin and sparsely dealt; all pleasures sweet can be fagot the instant they are felt.”
— Roman Payne
Roman Payne
The [...]
I was glad to be made aware that 2016-12-08 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“I was glad to be made aware that “Veimke” (jeune fille au pair), is subject to natural law, and can be made fat, by such things [...]
Women writers make for rewarding 2016-12-07 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep [...]
THERE WAS NO WORLD, NO LAND 2016-12-06 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“THERE WAS NO WORLD, NO LAND, NO GOD OR HEAVEN OR EARTH OUTSIDE OF THEIR TWO BODIES NAKED AND TREMBLING IN THE ACT OF LOVE.”
– ROMAN PAYNE
Roman [...]
I’ve decided the act that cannot wait 2016-12-05 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“I’ve decided the act that cannot wait is the important will to create But, ah, if my belly is ignored the pantry door I shall implore [...]
My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight 2016-12-04 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight. Her hands asleep beside her. Her hair draped on the lawn like a mantle of cloth.”
-Roman Payne
Roman Payne
The [...]
Coffee, my delight of the morning 2016-12-03 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. [...]
Rest in Peace? Why that phrase? 2016-12-02 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“‘Rest in Peace?’ Why that phrase? That’s the most ridiculous phrase I’ve ever heard! You die, and they say ‘Rest in Peace!’ …Why would one need [...]
He had been searching for it his entire life 2016-12-01 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“He had been searching for it his entire life. He had devoted himself to poetry to find it. Now, in the middle of his life, he [...]
I was surrounded by friends 2016-11-30 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of [...]
It’s not that we have to quit this life one day 2016-11-29 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter, the physics [...]
In the boundary less forests 2016-11-28 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“In the boundary less forests, there’re dancers of nude. Yet in the confines of pasture, there’s promise of food. On which is your side? O, but [...]
I will always know the glory of the beautiful 2016-11-27 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour a’nd prayer. As they will hear the laughter [...]
I knelt and locked the door 2016-11-26 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the mattress and Saskia drew [...]
In my errant life I roamed To learn the secrets 2016-11-25 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“I regained my soul through literature after those times I’d lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets. “
-Roman Payne
Roman Payne
The post In [...]
I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice 2016-11-24 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind to sober [...]
When she was a child, my love carried 2016-11-23 Posted in Daily Literary Quote
“When she was a child, my love carried a roadmap in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet [...]
Hope & Despair – A Novel 2018-03-13 Hope & Despair – A Novel
By Roman Payne
A feast of sensuality, Payne’s third epic novel narrates the story of the beautiful young Nadja, and her brooding lover Nikolai, as the [...]
“ODE TO SPRING” (from the novel, “Rooftop Soliloquy”) 2014-03-12
“Did I live the spring I’d sought?
It’s true in joy, I walked along,
took part in dance,
and sang the song.
and never tried to bind an hour
to my borrowed garden bower;
nor did [...]
IN 2016, LITERARY AND FINE ART STILL PAY GOOD MONEY 2016-08-02 Novelist and poet, Roman Payne, gives hope to lovers of literature
By Julie Sevigny
Imagine the world when Literature was central to everyone’s lives. In the 19th Century, the father would read [...]
“ODE TO SPRING” (from the novel, “Rooftop Soliloquy”) 2014-03-12
“Did I live the spring I’d sought?
It’s true in joy, I walked along,
took part in dance,
and sang the song.
and never tried to bind an hour
to my borrowed garden bower;
nor did [...]
IN 2016, LITERARY AND FINE ART STILL PAY GOOD MONEY 2016-08-02 Novelist and poet, Roman Payne, gives hope to lovers of literature
By Julie Sevigny
Imagine the world when Literature was central to everyone’s lives. In the 19th Century, the father would read [...]
Hope & Despair – A Novel 2018-03-13 Hope & Despair – A Novel
By Roman Payne
A feast of sensuality, Payne’s third epic novel narrates the story of the beautiful young Nadja, and her brooding lover Nikolai, as the [...]
Author of “The Wanderess” Held Captive in Morocco 2018-01-08 The author of “The Wanderess,” Roman Payne is currently forced in exile in Morocco.
Traveling in Morocco in 2017, you could lose your handbag, get swindled, or you could be held [...]
THIS SUMMER: FOR THOSE WHO LOVE TO WANDER AND WRITE 2017-05-10 New Wanderess Literary Tour & Writers’ Workshop Launches in the Mediterranean
Head to Croatia this summer to live the life of a wanderer or wanderess and create your own story in [...]
IN 2016, LITERARY AND FINE ART STILL PAY GOOD MONEY 2016-08-02 Novelist and poet, Roman Payne, gives hope to lovers of literature
By Julie Sevigny
Imagine the world when Literature was central to everyone’s lives. In the 19th Century, the father would read [...]