Friday Talking Points [90] -- Obama To Switch Parties
Ted Kennedy is putting both his legacy and his sense of entitlement to his office before the interests of his constituents.
Ted Kennedy is putting both his legacy and his sense of entitlement to his office before the interests of his constituents.
Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living
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.
Johann Hari | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media
The Slumdog Kill-ionaire is back, and he is reminding us how exhilarating fiction can be when novelists finally leave their seminar rooms and dive into the real world.
Christina Patterson | Posted 08.18.2009 | Living
Don't you just love those exclamation marks? Well, maybe you don't, but I do. I love the perkiness. I love the confidence. I love the lack of ambiguity.
Naazish YarKhan | Posted 08.12.2009 | Living
A book of short stories allows for variety, completion in short bursts of creativity and also captures thoughts between times of writing a novel.
Kevin Smokler | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media
Home Safe, is by Helen Ames who is recently widowed and having a tough time with her daughter, her missing retirement money and herself. It doesn't scream originality to us.
Hillary Rettig | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics
What do conservatives -- and repressive regimes and ideologies the world over -- have against romance, love and sex? Why do they need to control them so much?
Grant Whitney Harvey | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living
All day he had been readying himself for an encounter with her. But now, in the suddenness of it all, every bit of preparation was out the window.
Grant Whitney Harvey | Posted 05.30.2009 | Living
I Never in his twenty three years of life had Billy Gladsten made so much money. It afforded him a roomy one-bedroom apartment in Westwood, of all p...
Dan Glickman | Posted 05.22.2009 | Entertainment
I'm proud of the starring role that movies play bringing joy and inspiration to people worldwide. The real-world role we play at the heart of our modern, creative economy is often overlooked.
Jerry Zezima | Posted 04.26.2009 | Living
I knew it was only a matter of time before my journalistic crimes landed me in jail. I just didn't think I would end up on Rikers Island.
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 04.16.2009 | Living
I often worry that those things that are most important to me -- spending time with my family, doing my martial arts practice -- are slowly under assault by the very gadgets that I bought to make my life easier.
Carol Maric | Posted 03.27.2009 | Living
" Are you hungry? " " No. I am tired of eating. It is so high maintenance and costs too much. I am tir...
Joanne Rendell | Posted 03.06.2009 | Style
Grisham is just the latest in a line of authors who've written university stories featuring sex scandals -- or, at the very least, stories of sexually inappropriate relations on campus.
David Wallechinsky | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
In 1964, my father, Irving Wallace, wrote a novel, The Man, about the first black president. For this, my father received both accolades and death threats.
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 02.11.2009 | Living
Unlike passive varieties of entertainment, the good novel does not leave us numbed up, dumbed down, mentally impoverished, weakened or intellectually dead.
David Henry Sterry | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media
McCain didn't even write his memoir. And the book reads like it was written by the captain of the football team who had the smart kid do it for him.
Cynthia Kling | Posted 11.08.2008 | Media
"How Far is the Ocean from Here," by Amy Shearn has to be the weirdest, funniest saddest road novel I've ever read. A single 20-something agrees to surrogate for a pair of cozy yuppies.
Jeff VanderMeer | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
"The collapse was a tsunami, and all of us and the American dream had been on the beach, eyes closed, chairs angled at the sun, too close to the water to get away."
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.
Scott Tomford | Posted 11.06.2008 | Media
Thursday morning, somebody will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature... and that somebody probably won't be American.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 10.30.2008 | Media
There's going to be a shake-up, no doubt. It'll be ugly for publishing companies that don't adjust.
Jennifer Nix | Posted 08.06.2008 | Living
I once again see the potential and power of literature, and hope to tell new and necessary stories. As activists, we must not lose sight of art. Here are some questions I posed to Aleksandar Hemon.
Green Daily | Sea Stachura | Posted 06.20.2008 | Green
But in this latest round of imaginary Barbie Doll match making, we've chosen Al and Tom, together forever. Can't you see it? Al would take Tom under ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics