"the sound of crickets fucking"

Heroes and Villains celebration of the writer Harlan Ellison now featuring over 'ere in the shot in the literary arm that is Bookmunch.

“A writer should be bourgeois in life, so that he can be wild and liberated in his art,” Flaubert once said. Which is one reason why Flaubert is such a tedious dullard. Passionless living rarely equates to incendiary writing. A bloodless, antiseptic life of luxury, stability and listless sobriety, a life without mistakes or risks, does not provide much in the way of insight or feeling. Give us anything, it seems, but accomplished mediocrity. For we require writers that are as shambolic as we are..."