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Fighting fake news; Celebrating Shirley Jackson
... a celebration of Shirley Jackson’s centennial, with appearances by novelist Joyce Carol Oates, critic Laura Miller, writer Miles Hyman (Jackson’s grandson, and the author of The Lottery: A...
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Visible Republic
... James, Proust, Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Virginia Woolf, Langston Hughes, Borges, Nabokov, James Baldwin, and Chinua Achebe. The single best response to the zomg dylan won the nobel...
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Counternarratives by John Keene
... like "Gloss . . . ," that give a character's voice enough space to erupt or overflow. Writers like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, or Bohumil Hrabal, who let their characters indulge in...
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Women authors on gender and Hillary Clinton's loss
... At The Guardian, women authors including Siri Hustvedt and Joyce Carol Oates reflect
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Fierce Attachments
... James Joyce’s artistic intent, summed up in three words at the end of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: ‘silence, exile, cunning.’” For this reader, the abiding and precious gift of this book...
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Bookforum talks with Garth Greenwell
... much-discussed fiction assignment that required students to write their own stories modeled after James Joyce’s Dubliners: He wanted them not to look away from the incongruities of their own city...
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Scalia's Backward Glance; a New Book on Bowie
... you tell them apart or are they all a-mush?” As it turns out, you can. He presents graphs that show how often authors such as Jane Austen, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, and others use...
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Short Cuts
... Fitzgerald, Katherine Anne Porter, James Baldwin, Philip Roth, Flannery O’Connor, Grace Paley, Donald Barthelme, Jamaica Kincaid, Akhil Sharma, Joyce Carol Oates. Read in its entirety, this book...
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Triumph of the Quill
... meatball), drawings of animals, insects, and toys, puzzles, opinions on everything from news stories to James Joyce (Ultimately: wit sets behind reason, and while it is setting, the sky is marvellous...
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Covering the elephant in the room
...’s Institute of Nuclear Physics, who have been busy discovering fractals and multifractals
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LIT PARADE
... Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit 2004 “The great advantage of talking with Pound was to experience his talent for mimicry. He could do Yeats and Henry James, Joyce and radio evangelists, southern...
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Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by John King
... Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the world’s greatest living novelists, but, as Clive James wrote in Cultural Amnesia, his “true strength" is "undoubtedly in the essay. His collected essays written...
