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Salon.com
August 11, 2000
Laura Miller |
The death of the Red-Hot Center From literary giants tapping out the Great American novel through multiculturalism, Kmart realism and the Brat Pack to Oprah and your book club: A short history of fiction after 1960.   |
PC Magazine
September 12, 2007
Anton Galang |
The Sound and the Wiki The wiki movement goes literary, with thousands writing one novel. But can writing by committee produce better prose? |
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
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... |
Salon.com
August 8, 2000
Janelle Brown |
E-book 'em! AtRandom publisher Jonathan Karp is looking for literary revelation -- and mass readership -- from digital books. |
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... |
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
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
July 25, 2000
Laura Miller |
Slush, slush, sweet Stephen King doesn't realize the real-life horror he's unleashed on the public. |
Salon.com
April 17, 2002
Jonathon Keats |
Return to sender A collection of letters to J.D. Salinger, many from well-known writers, shows how the author of "Catcher in the Rye" went from man to myth... |
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... |
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
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... |
AskMen.com
Luc Gougeon |
How to be a Complete Man Although growing to be a complete man involves different aspects of life, reading books is certainly as important as the next thing. After all, culture is valued in our society and people will respect and admire you for possessing some. |
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
October 18, 2001
Laura Miller |
Stephen King, go home! The master of horror should forget hideous other worlds and stick to refrigerator magnets... |
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? |
The Motley Fool
June 20, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Making Books Interesting Again Amazon proves its influence in the book publishing world shouldn't be underestimated. |
AskMen.com
August 1, 2012
Poe & Hill |
Novel Mistakes Today, if you want to be an author, you have to ask yourself only one question: Do you have a story to tell? Here are some tips to help you avoid the pitfalls many first-time novelists encounter. |
Wired
Mark Horowitz |
Nabokov's Final Riddle: Literary Prank Master's Post-Mortem Novel He may be dead, but this fall Vladimir Nabokov is back with a new novel, The Original of Laura -- or at least the beta version. |
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
May 31, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Google Library Project Hit by Copyright Challenge from University Presses Extending the Google Print program to the digitization of five of the world's largest university research libraries, including copyrighted as well as non-copyrighted material, would inevitably seem to lead to a challenge of copyright violation. Oddly enough, the challenge has come from the less commercial publishers--the nonprofit university presses. |
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
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... |
BusinessWeek
February 27, 2006
Burt Helm |
Digital Books Start A New Chapter Lighter devices, better displays, and the iPod craze could make digital books best-sellers. |
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
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2012
G. Pascal Zachary |
Unleash Your Inner Asimov Write a story, make a video, invent the Next Big Thing. A small but growing cadre of savvy technologists argue that, at least in measured doses, encounters with imaginary worlds and futuristic devices could have a decisive influence on innovation. |
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
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. |
Wired
August 2004
Spencer Reiss |
Ping: Just One Question Would Moby Dick be better if Melville had used a word processor? |
AskMen.com
Kyle Darbyson |
Classic Book Adaptations The following five book adaptations are classic films because they did the seemingly improbable: They took highly regarded source material, stayed largely true to each novel and still delivered films that will reward the viewer each time he revisits them. |
Salon.com
September 16, 2002
Christopher Dreher |
Bribes, threats and naked readings In a world where more and more new books get less and less attention, authors will do anything to promote their work. |
Searcher
January 2001
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Final Hours: Tasini Goes to the Supreme Court The United States Supreme Court has announced it will hear the appeal New York Times v. Tasini. In hearing this case, the Supreme Court will decide the rights of freelance authors and perhaps the future of digital content... |
Salon.com
June 21, 2001
David Galef |
Technical difficulties What if the damsel in distress had a cellphone or Romeo had a pager? Modern gizmos make plotting a nightmare for writers... |
Salon.com
June 5, 2000
Craig Offman |
$1.4 million sight unseen Steven Spielberg and Pocket Books paid big money for a manuscript they hadn't read. |
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. |
