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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.   |
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
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. |
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
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... |
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. |
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. |
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
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
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 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... |
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
July 12, 2001
Lauren Sandler |
Throbbing hearts and thumping Bibles Christian authors are staking their claim on pop culture's steamiest preserve: Romance novels... |
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
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... |
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
October 18, 2001
Laura Miller |
Stephen King, go home! The master of horror should forget hideous other worlds and stick to refrigerator magnets... |
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
November 8, 2001
Laura Miller |
Romance and other myths Kelly Link, author of "Stranger Things Happen," talks about the inspiration for her unsettling tales... |
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 22, 2000 |
What to read: Winter novels Run away to the circus, to a haunted Indian village, to a secret-filled Scottish island and more with the season's best fiction. |
Reason
February 2005 |
Neal Stephenson's Past, Present, and Future The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America. |
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... |
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. |
Reason
May 2001
Nick Gillespie |
Don DeLillo's Bum Luck The novelist's low status in an age of cultural proliferation... |
Salon.com
February 16, 2001
Alan Furst |
War zone The author of "Kingdom of Shadows" picks four great books that transport you to the '30s and '40s. |
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
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... |
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
November 15, 2000
John Clute |
Eros in the age of machines Why did Theodore Sturgeon's great love stories languish in the ghetto of science fiction? |
Salon.com
November 6, 2000
Matthew DeBord |
Hang it up, Tom The once massively cool Tom Wolfe is trying to secure his legacy, but his new book doesn't pass the acid test... |
Reason
October 2005
Mike Godwin |
Remains of the DNA The book Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro, shows how clones, like the rest of us, justify their own misery. |
BusinessWeek
July 22, 2010
Spencer Morgan |
Romance Fiction: Getting Dirty in Dutch Country Romance fiction is on the rise -- aided by the success of unusual categories such as the Amish, knitting, and paranormal subgenres. |
Salon.com
August 18, 2000
Jonathan Franzen |
Chained The author of "The 27th City" picks five great American novels about slavery. |
