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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 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
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? |
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. |
Reason
May 2001
Nick Gillespie |
Don DeLillo's Bum Luck The novelist's low status in an age of cultural proliferation... |
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? |
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
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... |
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. |
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 16, 2000
Laura Miller |
And the winner is ... The drama and the dish behind the literary prizes that shape what America reads... |
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... |
Pharmaceutical Executive
January 1, 2009
Bob Brown |
Getting Graphic The graphic novel emerges as a versatile, effective medical education and marketing tool. |
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
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
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... |
Salon.com
June 20, 2002 |
What to read in June Novels about working on Wall Street and for the Secret Service, tales of wannabe American bohemians in Prague, a mystery set in ancient Greece and more in the month's best fiction. |
ifeminists
August 24, 2008
Wendy McElroy |
Book Review: Come Away In her published novel "Come Away,"Canadian author Anne Hines explores an anomaly within the Bible. |
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
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
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? |
Reason
January 2002
Tom Peyser |
Commuter Virus Is American literature too soft on the suburbs? |
