Age, Writing and Workshops
Any idea that I was still a young woman was temporarily dispelled the first few days of the annual Tin House Writers Conference at Reed College in Portland Oregon.
Any idea that I was still a young woman was temporarily dispelled the first few days of the annual Tin House Writers Conference at Reed College in Portland Oregon.
Richard Laermer | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media
The success of Angela's Ashes taught us that the most popular stories that seem to resonate with readers and spur new and positive changes are often the true ones.
Charles D. Ellison | Posted 07.24.2009 | Style
Rage against the Mullah machine fumes in Iran, economy is wrecked, and health care reform is a rubbery roast of ripped tire on the road to political h...
David Finkle | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media
Salinger might be better off taking the view of James M. Cain, the author of several hot 1940s chart items. Cain, asked once how he felt about what Hollywood had done to his books, said, "Hollywood hasn't done anything to my books. There they all are, up on the shelf."
David Finkle | Posted 06.04.2009 | Living
I cried when I found out that John Cheever died in 1982. And now with few readers, the paradise that is Cheever's writing is at risk of being a lost paradise.
AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 12.26.2008 | Media
LONDON — It's not quite the Nobel Prize, but John Updike has a new literary accolade: laureate of bad sex. Updike, who has a long and graphic h...
Rick Ayers | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media
The comments of the Swedish Academy secretary suggesting that an American is unlikely to win the Nobel Prize in Literature this week have provoked great patriotic upswellings.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media
As unforgettable as a haunting mountain ballad, Serena unfolds like a brilliantly conceived cautionary tale and mediation on the dark corners of unbridled lust to profit at any cost.
AP | MALIN RISING and HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 10.31.2008 | Media
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Bad news for American writers hoping for a Nobel Prize next week: the top member of the award jury believes the United State...
Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living