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Salon.com
August 16, 2001
Laura Miller |
Sentenced to death Is a snooty "sentence cult" sending the Great American Novel to hell in a pretentious purple handbasket?   |
Salon.com
February 27, 2002
Dorman Shindler |
The outsider Dan Simmons, whose novels range from science fiction to thrillers, talks about the feebleness of today's "serious" fiction and what we can all learn from Tom Wolfe... |
Salon.com
December 4, 2000
Laura Miller |
Older and better Critic David Kipen talks about the publishing industry's youth fetish and his list of 50 great authors over 50... |
Reason
May 2001
Nick Gillespie |
Don DeLillo's Bum Luck The novelist's low status in an age of cultural proliferation... |
Salon.com
November 16, 2000
Laura Miller |
And the winner is ... The drama and the dish behind the literary prizes that shape what America reads... |
Salon.com
April 3, 2002
Helen Macleod |
Mirror, mirror Alas, now even the great Ian McEwan has succumbed to the dreary trend of writers writing novels about writers writing novels... |
Chemistry World
September 2008
Philip Ball |
Column: The crucible We are conditioned to look at anything scientific as though we were back at school anticipating an exam, even if we find it between the covers of a novel. In my novel The Sun and Moon Corrupted, I include equations and quotes from Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity |
Salon.com
July 24, 2002
Heather Caldwell |
Pecked Dale Peck's scathing review of Rick Moody and a dozen other writers of "postmodern drivel" has the literary world buzzing about what makes for good -- and bad -- criticism. |
Wired
January 18, 2008
Clive Thompson |
Clive Thompson on Why Sci-Fi Is the Last Bastion of Philosophical Writing If you want to read books that tackle profound philosophical questions, then the best -- and perhaps only -- place to turn these days is science fiction. |
Salon.com
November 26, 2002
Charles Taylor |
Kiss Miss Marple goodbye Scottish mystery author Val McDermid talks about the tough reality of life in today's Britain and why crime writers, not literary novelists, are the ones facing up to it. |
AskMen.com
February 15, 2015
Emma Overton |
Famous Literary Rejections Some of the greatest authors were rejected endlessly, so don't give up. |
Salon.com
May 28, 2002
Tom Bissell |
I'd prefer not to My list includes Toni Morrison, Henry James, Faulkner and Beckett. Why are there some great writers we just cannot read? |
Salon.com
December 10, 2001
Kera Bolonik |
How low can they go? Women's magazines, once the source of first-rate writing, now offer a steady diet of diets and product tie-ins to readers who get no respect... |
Salon.com
March 12, 2002
Charles Taylor |
A conversation with Jonathan Coe The author of "The Rotters' Club" talks about "pleasuring the reader," Henry Fielding, Dickens, Angus Wilson and Margaret Thatcher as a feminist icon... |
Salon.com
April 18, 2002
Laura Miller |
After Oprah Her imitators and her critics misunderstand how she sold books -- and why she's such a tough act to follow... |
Reason
January 2002
Charles Paul Freund |
Franzen's Folly The novelist vs. high art's Dark Other... |
Salon.com
January 3, 2001
Charles Taylor |
The crime of my life Election and recession getting you down? Check out the mystery novels that got me through a very tough year... |
Salon.com
October 23, 2001
Jeffrey MacIntyre |
Don DeLillo America's premier novelist of ideas has long anticipated a world in which spectacle and terror would achieve totemic significance in our everyday lives... |
Salon.com
September 5, 2001
M.J. Rose |
Your ad here Dismayed authors respond to the news that a fancy jeweler paid a noted novelist to put its products front and center in her new book... |
Salon.com
December 6, 2000
Edward Neuert |
"Bellow" by James Atlas The long-awaited chronicle of the Nobel laureate's path from bootlegger's son to literary boychik to cranky old man shows why Saul Bellow has many admirers but few friends... |
Salon.com
October 10, 2000
Laura Miller |
"Ghostwritten" by David Mitchell The latest, much-hyped attempt at a wild, supercharged fictional ride proves that minimalism may finally be dead, but true eccentric geniuses are few and far between... |
Reason
December 2008
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Tor's Worlds Without Death or Taxes When is a mainstream publisher also an anti-authoritarian propagandist? When it publishes science fiction. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2007
Zorpette & Ross |
The Books That Made A Difference Leading technologists name the novel that influenced them the most: Vinton Cerf, Google: The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien... Donald Christiansen, President of Informatica: War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk... etc. |
Salon.com
October 5, 2000
Gary Krist |
"On Writing" by Stephen King Thankfully, if inexplicably, his how-to guide contains the harrowing true story of his nearly fatal car accident. But did we really need the best horror writer alive to explain his position on adverbs? |
Salon.com
November 2, 2000
Lev Grossman |
Man, oh manifesto! A brash band of young writers issues a screed against "dinosaur" authors and calls for a return to storytelling... |
Reason
February 2007
Cathy Young |
The Fan Fiction Phenomena Is the growth of Internet-based fan fiction a cultural development to be wholeheartedly applauded? Not quite. |
Salon.com
August 11, 2000
Andrew O'Hehir |
Stephen King A master of plot mechanics, he revived the moribund genre of horror literature and became the richest writer in history. We could do worse. |
Salon.com
April 24, 2001
Charles Taylor |
Show and tell Moviegoers and readers ought to learn to love the book and the film... |
Salon.com
June 8, 2001
Matt Thorne |
Battle of the sexes When the women-only Orange Prize brought in a panel of male judges, they asked an age-old question: do men and women have different taste in books? |
Salon.com
October 26, 2001
Laura Miller |
Book lovers' quarrel Jonathan Franzen's dustup with Oprah exposes the deep rift between devotees of the "literary" and fans of the "popular"... |
Salon.com
February 1, 2000
Cary Tennis |
Tom Wolfe He put New Journalism on the map with writing that shook as fiercely as it shimmered. |
Salon.com
November 20, 2000
Matthew DeBord |
From "Bright Lights, Big City" to gamay Beaujolais Brat Pack novelist Jay McInerney finds being a jet-setting wine expert far more glamorous... |
Salon.com
October 20, 2000
Kera Bolonik |
The e-book wars Does a glittering $100,000 prize signal the coming of age of digital books, or a takeover bid by Microsoft and New York publishers? |
Salon.com
August 8, 2001
Joe Mullich |
Lost in translation "Planet of the Apes" spawns a whole new genre -- lame novelizations of movies based on good novels... |
Salon.com
June 13, 2000
Jonathan Miles |
"Jim the Boy" by Tony Earley The long-awaited novel by a New York Times and New Yorker darling is a plodding, goody-two-shoes effort that reads like a dusty Boy Scout manual. |
Salon.com
September 7, 2001
Laura Miller |
Only correct Jonathan Franzen talks about the medicalization of love and loss, the charms of Narnia and living in an America where no one grows up... |
Salon.com
July 25, 2000
Laura Miller |
Slush, slush, sweet Stephen King doesn't realize the real-life horror he's unleashed on the public. |
Chemistry World
December 2008
Richard Van Noorden |
Editorial: Fiction failure Rare as it is for chemistry and its ideas to star in fiction, it's rarer still to find a story with a character who happens to be a chemist, but is also simply a well-rounded human being. |
Salon.com
May 10, 2001
Maria Russo |
Gloom at the top Get a bunch of bestselling authors together and what do they talk about? The agonies of success... |
Salon.com
September 13, 2000 |
What to read: September fiction From a surreal, carnal coming-of-age set on Coney Island to a wicked, gossipy story of the literary life, our critics pick the best books. |
Salon.com
October 16, 2000
David Bowman |
The book of Jane Jane Hamilton, author of "The Book of Ruth," talks about her new novel, Civil War reenactors and how e-mail has facilitated Midwestern adultery... |
Salon.com
July 24, 2000
Salon's critics |
What to read: July fiction Novels of love and evil, from lesbian Victoriana to deft, Vonnegut-style humor and gritty Indian realism. |
Salon.com
July 12, 2001
Lauren Sandler |
Throbbing hearts and thumping Bibles Christian authors are staking their claim on pop culture's steamiest preserve: Romance novels... |
Salon.com
October 6, 2000
Stanley Crouch |
Living color The critic and author of "Don't the Moon Look Lonesome" picks eight great books that get race right. |
Salon.com
August 4, 2000
Mary Morris |
Book Bag: Straight from the heartland The author of "Nothing to Declare" picks six great books about the Midwest. |
Information Today
October 8, 2009 |
EBSCO Expands Coverage With New Literary Reference Center Plus The database expands upon EBSCO's Literary Reference Center and provides additional content including more than 1,100 reference books and more than 125 literary periodicals. |
Information Today
January 10, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Ebook Trends 2013 -- The Transformation Accelerates In the past year, the "if" and "when" questions for ebooks were answered -- electronic media are now clearly in the mainstream and even driving changes in all aspects of publication/distribution/use of information and literature. |
Reason
January 2002
Tom Peyser |
Commuter Virus Is American literature too soft on the suburbs? |
Salon.com
September 7, 2001
Andrew O'Hehir |
"The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen Amid the media fizz, the novel of the year is a brilliant but strangely old-fashioned story of an intensely real family facing the perils of life in America... |
Salon.com
July 30, 2001
M.J. Rose |
E-book outcast The Web made me a successful author, but getting people to respect me as a "real writer" has been harder to come by... |
