writers & writing
RalphPeters
My Life's Sentences
He does not feel as if he has the time to do what boys like to do — playing sports or video games, running around outside — because he has to study at least 15 hours a day, almost every day of the week.
A long sentence is worth the read - latimes.com
"Your sentences are so long," said a friend who teaches English at a local college, and I could tell she didn't quite mean it as a compliment.
In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of literary, commercial, and science fiction.
Document: The Symbolism Survey, Sarah Funke Butler
Reading "2666", "it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish Roberto Bolaño's genius from his excess. Indeed, it starts to seem that Bolaño's genius is his excess", writes Garth Risk Hallberg...
IS "2666" A MASTERPIECE?
James Baldwin: Witty, Fiery in Berkeley, 1979
Hot on the heels of Independence Day, here’s a chance to listen to one of America’s best writers declaring his own form of Independence — a freedom from some of the more troubling assumptions embedded in the English language.
December 12, 1976 Listen to an Audio Recording of Saul Bellow's Nobel Lecture (paragraph 1-3) * 11 min.
Saul Bellow - Nobel Lecture
How a writer's vision, and his worldview, are inseparable from the writing itself. ON receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature this year, V.S. Naipaul has responded by paying tribute to England, "(his) home", and India, "the home of (his) ancestors".
The ignoble politics of Naipaul's Nobel
Events
Renowned philosopher and scholar Tariq Ramadan asks: how can different religious traditions move beyond tolerant co-existence to mutual respect and enrichment? Download video (mp4) How to download a video
HaroldPinter
Reza Aslan’s New Book, Table and Pen: Literature Bridges Civilizations
It would be a good thing to remember when reading Tablet and Pen , an anthology of modern Middle Eastern literature, that it’s not meant to be definitive.PeterDKramer
SusanStraight
theater
TraceyScottWilson
satire
AghaShahidAli
DavidFosterWallace
nonfiction
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