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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Lonesome Dove

CREATORS FICTION FILM Remembrance Writers

Larry McMurtry Was One Lucky Bastard

March 29, 2021March 31, 2021 Michael Giltz 1 Comment Brokeback Mountain, Cybill Shepherd, Diana Ossana, Doc?, E. Annie Proulx, Hud, James L. Brooks, Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove, Martin Ritt, Paper Moon, Paul Newman, Peter Bogdanovich, Polly Platt, Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show, The Murder of Mary Phagan, What's Up

The late Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist has Hollywood to thank for his biggest successes

Beverly Cleary

CREATORS FICTION Remembrance Writers Young Adult

America Mourns Beverly Cleary

March 28, 2021March 30, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Beverly Cleary, Faith Salie, Jenny Han, Judy Blume, Ramona Quimby, Reese Witherspoon, Viola Davis

Tributes pour in for beloved children’s author, who passed away last week at 104

Ethan Hawke

CREATORS FICTION Writers

‘A Bright Ray of Darkness,’ Ethan Hawke’s Pretentious, Whiny Autofiction

February 5, 2021February 11, 2021 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments A Bright Ray of Darkness, Ethan Hawke, Henry IV

OJ’s ‘If I Did It’ for the pseudo-intellectual set

Promising Young Woman

Actors CREATORS FILM Writers

Unpromising Old Reviewer

January 29, 2021 Jake Harris 0 Comments Carey Mulligan, Dennis Harvey, Emerald Fennell, Margot Robbie, Promising Young Woman, Variety, Zendaya

‘Variety’ apologizes for ‘Promising Young Woman’ review, but the Internet demands blood

Karl Edward Wagner

CREATORS DOCUMENTARY FICTION FILM Writers

The Tragedy of Karl Edward Wagner

January 28, 2021February 2, 2021 Michael Washburn 8 Comments Dennis Etchison, Karl Edward Wagner, Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, Robert E. Howard, S.T. Joshi, The Last Wolf

Documentary explores the decline of a cult horror and fantasy writer

Louise Fitzhugh

Biography CREATORS NON-FICTION Writers

Spying on Louise Fitzhugh

January 28, 2021January 28, 2021 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Harriet The Spy, Judy Blume, Leslie Broady, Louise Fitzhugh, Nobody's Family Is Going To Change, Sometimes You Have To Lie, The Long Secret

A new biography casts light on the private life of the queer author of ‘Harriet The Spy’

Fran Leibowitz

CREATORS TELEVISION Writers

A Few Evenings With Fran Lebowitz

January 27, 2021February 5, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Andy Warhol, Belinda Carlisle, Fran Lebowitz, James Levine, Martin Scorsese, Pretend It's A City, Toni Morrison

Martin Scorsese’s Netflix documentary series about a great American wit

Reading Aloud

CREATORS NON-FICTION Writers

Reading Aloud with Meghan Cox Gurdon

January 26, 2021January 27, 2021 Elizabeth Hazard 0 Comments A Place of Greater Safety, Ann Patchett, Hilary Mantel, Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Enchanted Hour, The Mirror and the Light, The Wall Street Journal, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Treasure Island, Wolf Hall

An interview with the author of ‘The Enchanted Hour’, celebrating the art of family storytime

CREATORS Politics Writers

Barry Lyga and Publishing Friends Condemn “The Monsters Among Us”

January 21, 2021January 29, 2021 Jamie Mason 8 Comments Barry Lyga, Censorship, Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, Night and Fog, Regency, Thomas Spence

In a petition, 500 literary professionals seek to define who gets a book deal in the post-Trump world

Murakami

CREATORS FICTION Writers

The Empathy of Haruki Murakami

January 19, 2021January 29, 2021 Michael Washburn 1 Comment Haruki Murakami, Ozamu Dazi, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima

Japan’s most famous writer looks at the COVID-19 crisis from the viewpoint of ordinary people

Sally Rooney

CREATORS FICTION Writers

Literary Twitter Goes Rooney Tunes Over New Sally Rooney Novel Announcement

January 14, 2021January 13, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Amber Sparks, Beautiful World Where Are You, Brandon Taylor, Elisa Gabbert, Farrar Strauss & Giroux, Hulu, Lorrie Moore, Mitzi Angel, Normal People, Sally Rooney

Buy stock in Kleenex for September 2021

ngo

CREATORS NON-FICTION Politics Writers

Ngo is a No-Go at Powell’s

January 12, 2021January 18, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Andy Ngo, Portland, Powell's Books, Proud Boys, Sarah Jeong, Unmasked

Portland bookstore pulls anti-Antifa book after protests

Cancel Culture

CREATORS FICTION NON-FICTION Politics Writers

Cancel Culture: The Lit-World Year In Review

December 29, 2020January 4, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Abigail Shrier, American Dirt, Apropos Of Nothing, J.K. Rowling, Jeanne Cummins, Jordan Peterson, Joseph Epstein, Julie Burchill, Marisa Corvisiero, Sasha White, Tobias Literary Agency, Woody Allen

Most of 2020’s ‘canceled’ books are actually doing quite well, thank you

Amis

CREATORS FICTION Writers

‘Inside Story’, or is Martin Amis Just Hedging?

December 21, 2020December 24, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Christopher Hitchens, Evelyn Waugh, Inside Story, John Updike, Martin Amis, Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings

Hiding your opinions of famous writers as “fiction” is a cop-out

John le Carré

FICTION FILM Remembrance Writers

John le Carré’s Spies Were the anti-James Bond

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments American Pie, Danielle McDonald, George Smiley, James Bond, John le Carré, No Time To Die, The Looking-Glass War, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

His novels transcended genre

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