16 Famous Writers Told Us About The Book They’re Most Thankful For. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate. A few weeks ago, I finished reading the Library of America’s six-volume, sixty-eight-hundred-page edition of the novels of Henry James.
I’m a sucker for completist projects, but this one came about more or less by accident. It took me a couple of years, and I didn’t undertake it in an especially devoted or systematic way. I had always considered James one of my favorite writers, largely on the basis of a few long novels (“The Portrait of a Lady,” “The Ambassadors”) and short stories (“The Aspern Papers,” “The Figure in the Carpet”). But I knew him less well than any other figure in my personal canon. Once you’ve gotten beyond the bright constellation of the major works, it can be hard to know where to go with James’s writing; there’s so much of it, and no one seems to agree on what’s what.
My solution to the quandary was to start at the beginning. When I mentioned this plan to friends, their responses fell roughly into two camps. James’s distinction is one worth keeping in mind. How books can sap the soul and poison readers with i... Reading novels is good for you.
This is the current wisdom, at least. A 2013 study by the New School for Social Research in New York City attempted to prove that reading passages by Don DeLillo and Lydia Davis had an immediate impact on participants’ ability to identify the emotions of others. Culture - Is Stephen King a great writer? Stephen King has had an uncanny ability to hit the commercial bull’s-eye from the beginning of his career.
In the 40 years since his first novel, Carrie, he has published more than 50 books, all of them international best sellers. Shortly after its release, Carrie was turned into a blood-drenched film by Brian De Palma. And in 1977 King’s novel The Shining, set in a wintry ski resort and featuring a paranormal child and a maniacal father, further showcased his unparalleled gift for psychological terror. When Stanley Kubrick turned that novel into a film in 1980, the Stephen King industry was born. There are now more than 100 films and TV programmes based on his work, and he shows no signs of slowing down – not with his legions of fans, hungry for more. Why Are Literary Critics Dismayed by Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch and Its Success? No one denies that Donna Tartt has written the “It novel” of the year, a runaway best-seller that won her the Pulitzer Prize.
But some of the self-appointed high priests of literary criticism—at The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The Paris Review—are deeply dismayed by The Goldfinch and its success. “Have you read The Goldfinch yet?” Sendy.okfn. Email not displaying properly?
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Electric Literature's Recommended Reading. ‘Why I Read,’ by Wendy Lesser. Focus on The Moth literary magazine. Focus on The Moth literary magazine The Mo th is a highly regarded, quarterly and visually striking literary magazine, founded in 2010 and based in Cavan.
It seeks quality literature and art from ‘up-and-coming writers and artists from Ireland and abroad.’ In this Q and A with co-founder Rebecca O’ Connor, I find out more about The Moth’s beginnings, philosophy and the sort of submissions it seeks. AW: Tell us about the Moth, how and when it was established and who’s involved? ROC: My husband Will Govan and I came up with the idea of publishing an arts and literature magazine while having a rare night out in Dublin (our son was two at the time).
AW: Can you tell us a bit about your own background? ROC: I studied English Literature at Queen’s in Belfast, then did a Masters in American Literature at King’s College in London. The internet literature magazine blog of the future. Largehearted boy: a music and literature blog. BOOK RIOT - Always books. Never boring. Granta Magazine. The Rumpus.net. Page-Turner.
April 8, 2014 Slide Show: Kurt Vonnegut’s Whimsical Drawings Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,’s crude, ludic doodles—a beaver, a cobra, an asterisk-anus—are famous from novels like “Breakfast of Champions,” as is the curly-haired self-portrait that doubled as his signature.
But making graphic art was, for Vonnegut, a hobby that extended beyond illustrations for his fiction: he painted seascapes and landscapes on Cape Cod in the nineteen-fifties; felt-tip drawings of abstract faces on discarded pages of manuscripts; and larger, more formal color drawings that he exhibited in a one-man show in Greenwich Village in 1980. Vonnegut described his artwork as a pursuit that liberated him from the oppressive work of writing. In “Fates Worse Than Death,” he wrote, “My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating.… The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.”...Continue Reading >> What Muriel Spark Saw She loved lightning. The Awl - Be Less Stupid. 3:AM Magazine.
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