To get you past that "what's the point" existential angst. The authors and works features here deal variously with the processes of writing, what has drawn them to create in this medium, and meditations on the place of literature in civilization.Or, you know, they provide inspiration through their own excellence and their own obvious love of the craft - leading by example, as it were.So if you're suffering through a dry spell yourself, or if you just want to be prepared in the face of its even

Writer's block: this common affliction was first described by a Dr. Edmund Bergler, the psychoanalyst who famously said "Man's inhumanity to man is equaled only by man's inhumanity to himself." Okay, fair enough. And surprisingly appropriate when considering the psychological roots of the affliction we're here concerned with. While writer's block has probably as many causes as there are writers, the "cure" offered here is for especially suited for those suffering from a dearth of inspiration!