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The Agony Column Audio Interview Archive
Audio interviews with scores of writers of all kinds, including many speculative fictioneers and discussions of writing, writers and the writing process.
Baron Wormser.com
Archive of Wormser's poetry, essays, talks, links to books, etc. Good stuff.
THE MARTIN PAPERS: MY LIFE WITH MARTIN AMIS | More Intelligent Life
Interesting pictures (literally and figuratively) of a young Martin Amis... an amazing author despite the advantages and pedigree...
Remembering J.G. Ballard, 1930-2009 | Salon Books
I had no idea J. G. Ballard had passed away this week. What a loss...
The Literary Tradition of Women - ChronicleReview.com
"Overrated: Gertrude Stein. She played an important role in the development of modernism, but she played it for men. And she is just not readable. She became viewed as a "sister": That doesn't sanctify her work. We can criticize it. [...] I look with a critical eye at contemporary poetry, too. There are a great many talented woman poets today, but I don't think any of them measure up to a Sylvia Plath or Adrienne Rich. I don't feel any male poets do either."
Flannery O'Connor, Brad Gooch | Salon Books
Has any other 20th century American author with so little published output – virtually everything she wrote for publication and a few things that she didn't fit neatly into a single Library of America volume – had such an enormous influence on American literature? Mary Flannery O'Connor published just two novels, "Wise Blood" (1952) and "The Violent Bear It Away" (in 1960, three years before her death at age 39 from kidney failure brought on by lupus) and two collections of stories, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (1955) and "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (1965). Her influence on literature over the last half-century is enormous, from Alice Walker (who read O'Connor's stories "endlessly" while in college and was "scarcely conscious of the difference between her racial and economic background and my own") to novelists as radically different in temperament as Walker Percy and Cormac McCarthy. The wonder is that it took half a century for her to get a definitive biography, Brad Gooch's "Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor."
Life and Letters: The Unfinished: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
David Foster Wallace's struggle to surpass "Infinite Jest."
The novelist in wartime
"Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg."
An Alienation Artist: Kafka and His Critics
The most common complaint among revisionist biographers and doting critics of Franz Kafka is that, in the eighty-odd years since his death, the deification of the writer has reduced his work to the level of the aphorism.
In Memoriam David Foster Wallace
Includes tributes from Steven Moore, Dave Eggers, Kathleein Fitzpatrick and others. If this link doesn't work, it is in: Modernism/modernity Volume 16, Number 1, January 2009.
The best of Updike, the worst of Updike. - By Troy Patterson - Slate Magazine
"Updike's most enduring legacy exists at the level of the sentence. If you count swinging Saul Bellow as a Canadian, Montreal-born, and also class Vladimir Nabokov as a transnational, all-transcending anomaly, then Updike is, line for line, without peer, the finest American prose stylist of the postwar era: meticulous, crystalline, and luminously hyperrealist, his opulent language hanging on austere forms. Even his bad writing—and the consequence of his three-pages-per-day prolificity is that there's no shortage of it—sparks with phrases that send the heart skittering. "
Interesting Times: George Packer: Online Only: The New Yorker
Kristol’s performance on the Op-Ed page during the most interesting election in a generation is a historical symptom, not merely a personal failure. He wrote badly because his world view had become problematic at best, untenable at worst, and he had spent too many years turning out Party propaganda to summon the intellectual resources that a difficult situation required. Now the Times owes it to its readers to find someone better.
Emily Dickinson's secret lover. - By Christopher Benfey - Slate Magazine
Interesting... and strange.
Author Interviews (Dalkey Archive)
David Foster Wallace, Julio Cortazar, Richard Powers, Nicholas Mosley, Samuel Delaney... many, many interviews.
VQR » Blog » We Are Altogether Too Efficient
You can't please everyone... VQR has an efficient online submiission and review process which, it turns out, is *too* efficient for some would-be contributors
John d'Agata Receives NEA Award
Good news for John D'Agata, one of the most interesting essayists around. And a damn good editor-- everyone should read _The Next American Essay_ and explore innovations in the form.
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