Writer Rod Serling created The Twilight Zone, a low-budget but successful television series that melded philosophy, science fiction and modern anxieties. Serling was a writer first, and the episodes reflected an attention to tapping into something that lies just beneath the surface. Here is one of my favorite quotes: “Martin Sloan, age thirty-six, vice-president in charge…
REVIEW: STORIES FOR THE NIGHTTIME AND SOME FOR THE DAY by Ben Loory
It’s a deceptive little book. Not too thick; it’s compact and fits easily into your bag. Just pull it out while you wait at the car wash or in the subway. Something to pass the time. But that’s what it wants you to think. Soon you will be swept away into dimensions where a…