Ericlernerfictions: 2 books

There are lines you dont cross. Thats how you live your life. You keep looking down to check the lines and make sure no matter how nuts things get, youre on the right side of the line. Jane believed that. She really did. But in the face of the plaintive, seductive importunings of the men her life: her...

History effortlessly convinces us, but Fiction has to work so much harder to accomplish the suspension of disbelief: cajoling, arguing, pleading, losing all dignity and shamelessly seducing. If all else fails, Fiction will even break into a soft-shoe shuffle or a Dance of the Seven Veils. Try, if you must, to withstand the wiles of Livia Augusta, the Emperors Wife.