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Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Breaking: Hollywood Sucks For Writers

December 6, 2018December 6, 2018 Katharine Coldiron 2 Comments Alfonso Cuaron, Diana Gould, Gravity, Hollywood Vs. The Author, Jonathan Kellerman, Lee Goldberg, Michael Connelly, Peter James, Stephen Jay Schwartz, Tess Gerritsen

Mostly Men, Mostly White, Mostly Crime Authors Tell All

CLASSICS CREATORS FILM Writers

William Goldman’s Western Cowards

November 29, 2018December 6, 2018 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments A Bridge Too Far, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Catch-22, Katharine Ross, Marathon Man, Paddy Chayevsky, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, The Wild Bunch, William Goldman

‘Butch Cassidy’ and Running From a Fight

CREATORS FICTION TELEVISION Writers

Who Cares About ‘The Great American Read’?

October 24, 2018October 24, 2018 Neal Pollack 1 Comment Atlas Shrugged, Harry Potter, literature, Little Women, Lord Of The Rings, Moby Dick, Outlander, PBS, Pride And Prejudice, The Great American Read, To Kill A Mockingbird

PBS’ Deathly Dull Literary Reality Series Comes to a Merciful End

CREATORS FICTION TELEVISION Writers

The Wackadoodle Literary Satire Of ‘You’

October 22, 2018October 22, 2018 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Caroline Kepnes, David Mitchell, Friends From College, Jonathan Franzen, Lifetime, Paula Fox, Search Party, The Affari, You, Zadie Smith

Tales Of A Bookish Psychopath

CREATORS Education FILM TELEVISION Writers

William Shakespeare: Tool Of The Patriarchy

October 22, 2018 Mia McCullough 2 Comments Anthony Hopkins, education, Emma Thompson, King Lear, patriarchy, William Shakespeare

How About Studying Other Playwrights For A Change?

Remembrance Writers

Rashod Ollison Has Died

October 18, 2018October 18, 2018 James Porter 0 Comments Al Green, Alice Walker, Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Nikki Giovanni, Rashod Ollison, SOUL SERENADE, Toni Morrison

Virginia journalist, critic and author remembered by friend he inspired

CREATORS Writers

Kanye West Didn’t Ruin Your Literary Career

October 15, 2018 Ann Sterzinger 1 Comment #MAGA, books, Donald Trump, Kanye West, literary scene

Don’t Blame Yeezy If Your Books Are Boring

CREATORS Memoir Writers

Literary Downtown

September 17, 2018September 17, 2018 Ken Kurson 1 Comment Algiers, Black Panthers, Britney Wilson, Cory Nakasue, Elaine Makhtefi, Eldridge Cleaver, Frantz Fanon, Gila Walker, Housing Works, Jason Diamond, Jen Doll, Leonora Miano, McNally Jackson, Mokhtar Mokhtefi, Pilot Viruet, Ryan Chapman, Sari Botton, Season of the Shadow, St. Marks Bookshop, Stokely Carmichael, Talia Lavin, Timothy Leary, Will Hermes

You just have to look a little harder, walk a little farther

Business CREATORS Writers

Paul Rosa’s Job Is to Bother the Hell Out of Tourists

September 10, 2018September 10, 2018 Jon Hart 3 Comments Crashing, Idiot Letters, Judd Apatow, Paul Rosa, Pete Holmes, Ted L. Nancy

Self-Proclaimed ‘Fool of Times Square’ Is an Author

Writers

Margaret Drabble’s Incoherent, Superficial, Overwrought Style of Argumentation

September 3, 2018September 17, 2018 Michael Washburn 1 Comment Margaret Drabble, Telegraph, W.H. Auden

‘My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease’

Writers

Has Twitter Killed the Long Read?

September 2, 2018September 1, 2018 Roger Gathman 0 Comments Jonathan Crary, long read, Matthew Arnold, N+1, Partisan Review, twitter

Attention span as luxury item

CREATORS Writers

The Avital Ronell Case: Culture Wars in the Twilight of Humanities Departments

August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 Roger Gathman 1 Comment Allan Bloom, Avital Ronell, Brian Leiter, Jane Gallop, John Searle, Leo Strauss, NYU, philosophy, Richard Rorty, sexual harassment

Brian Leiter, the Matt Drudge of the philosophy world, sheds light on a dark period in higher ed

CREATORS Writers

Facebook Deletes Moves App and Erases a Meaningful Record of my Life

August 22, 2018August 22, 2018 Rebecca Kurson 2 Comments Facebook, Moves App

A writer laments the loss of a constant companion

CREATORS Writers

Germany Is Abuzz, Literally

August 21, 2018August 20, 2018 Roger Gathman 0 Comments Berlin, Peter Wortsman, Robert Musil

Tourism Lit: the summer of wasps in Berlin

COMICS CREATORS FICTION Writers

Robert E. Howard: Literary Artist or Pulp Hack?

August 20, 2018August 20, 2018 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Bran Mak Morn, Conan the Barbarian, H.P. Lovecraft, Kull, Robert E. Howard, Solomon Kane

There’s more to the creator of Conan the Barbarian than can be contained by sword-and-sorcery

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