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Joyce Carol Oates Goes to the Rack for Norman Mailer

January 10, 2022January 12, 2022 Katie Smith 0 Comments Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, The White Negro

She knows he stabbed his wife but loves him anyway

AUTHOR STUFF Writers

Death of an Iconoclast

December 24, 2021December 30, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Doris Lessing, Joan Didion

What Joan Didion did for American letters

CREATORS FICTION Writers

Académie Française Honors Vargas Llosa

December 6, 2021December 10, 2021 Michael Washburn 1 Comment Académie Française, Death In The Andes, Harsh Times, Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian writer with a complex worldview receives France’s highest literary award

CREATORS Writers

‘All of the Marvels’

November 8, 2021November 11, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments All of the Marvels, Dazzler, Douglas Wolk, Masters of Kung Fu, Spider-Man, X-Men

An audio interview with author Douglas Wolk, who read every single Marvel comic published in the last 60 years

CREATORS FICTION Writers

The Great Gurnah

November 3, 2021November 11, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chinua Achebe, Haruki Murakami, Paradise, Peter Carey, Peter Handke, Things Fall Apart

An appreciation of this year’s Nobel Prize winner for literature

CREATORS Writers

‘The Big Hurt’

November 2, 2021November 2, 2021 Ayun Halliday 0 Comments Ayun Halliday, Erika Schickel, The Big Hurt

An audio encounter between Ayun Halliday and author Erika Schickel to discuss Schickel’s new memoir

Politics Writers

Sally Rooney Versus the State of Israel

October 13, 2021October 13, 2021 Dan Friedman 1 Comment Beautiful World Where Are You, Ireland, Israel, Modan, Sally Rooney

‘The first great millennial novelist’ refuses to allow Israeli publisher to put out her new book

CREATORS Writers

Joyce Carol Oates Falls Down a Pronoun Hole

October 7, 2021October 16, 2021 Katie Smith 1 Comment Joyce Carol Oates, Lithub, Them, twitter

Literary Twitter roasts 83-year-old writer for wrongthink

CREATORS FICTION Writers

Brent Spiner Writes Fan Fiction About Himself

October 4, 2021October 13, 2021 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Brent Spiner, Fan Fiction, Gene Rodenberry, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Mr. Data, Patrick Stewart, Star Trek, The Next Generation

Mr. Data and the Mystery of the Pig’s Penis

CREATORS Writers

The Last Laugh of S.J. Perelman

September 21, 2021September 27, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Adam Gopnik, Marx Brothers, Nathaniel West, S.J. Perelman, The Day of the Locust, The New Republic

An iconoclast whose only rule was to be funny joins the Library of America

CREATORS Writers

Jean Hanff Korelitz Doesn’t Lose ‘The Plot’

September 8, 2021September 8, 2021 Ayun Halliday 0 Comments @booksteahenny, Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot

An audio interview with the master suspense writer

CREATORS FICTION Writers

O. Henry Joins the Greats

August 9, 2021August 12, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments 101 Stories, Ambrose Bierce, David Foster Wallace, Library of America, Louis L'Amour, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Upton Sinclair, Zane Grey

The Library of America enshrines a satirical wit who portrayed desperate writers

CREATORS NON-FICTION Writers

Appreciating the Late Peter de Vries

July 14, 2021August 3, 2021 Michael Washburn 5 Comments Janwillem Van de Wetering, Joran Van der Sloot, Natalee Holloway, Peter de Vries, Portrait of a Monster

The literary legacy of the Dutch crime reporter and author who attackers shot in Amsterdam on July 6

CREATORS Politics Writers

The SCBWI Tries To Regroup

July 14, 2021August 4, 2021 Sharyn Vane 2 Comments April Powers, Razan Abdin-Adnani, SCBWI, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators goes super-bureaucratic to battle charges of antisemitism and Islamophobia

CREATORS FICTION Politics Writers

J.R.R. Wolkien

June 28, 2021July 2, 2021 G.L. Ford 2 Comments Christopher Tolkien, J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings

The ancient world of Middle Earth runs into contemporary identity politics

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