| Similar Articles |
|---|
 |
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
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. |
Salon.com
April 24, 2001
Charles Taylor |
Show and tell Moviegoers and readers ought to learn to love the book and the film... |
Reason
July 2004
Tim Cavanaugh |
Ulysses Unbound That a book universally considered unfilmable should already be on its second movie is testimony to Ulysses' powerful attraction and decidedly mixed luck. |
Reason
May 2001
Nick Gillespie |
Don DeLillo's Bum Luck The novelist's low status in an age of cultural proliferation... |
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
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
July 26, 2000
Emily Jenkins |
There's something about Jane Why imitators and sequel writers can't leave Austen alone -- and why they should. |
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 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
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. |
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
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
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 18, 2000
Jonathan Franzen |
Chained The author of "The 27th City" picks five great American novels about slavery. |
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? |
