I think the first time I ever read a Raymond Carver story was from an anthology called ‘Nothing But Love : Love Stories from the New Yorker‘. The story was called ‘Blackbird Pie‘. I can’t remember much about the story now, but I remember at that time I felt it was underwhelming...
Jr.Also in 2016 the novelist and memoiristJesmyn WardeditedThe Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race, a collection of essays and poems by prominent African American writers, includingIsabel Wilkerson,Edwidge Danticat,Claudia Rankine, andKevin Young. Baldwin’s fiction and plays were ...
“The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing.” Yet she continued to publish essays in many magazines. In 1994 she wrote a children’s book,Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet Two Pandas, which is set in New York. That ...
One cannot compare the two at any rate – Tagore is a giant, a saint, a genius – but it suddenly struck me that all this time I had unconsciously been avoiding Pakistan writers. I think the last Pakistani novel I’d read was Kartography, or Moth Smoke –years and years ago. I don...
Abrams and Dorst wereinterviewedin 2013 by Joshua Rothman inThe New Yorkerand told him a large part of that story. Sociologists of the book will revel in Abrams’ comparison of the book’s creation with that of a screenplay and movie, and they will marvel that, with all of its of seeming...
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Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. He is the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction, and his novella Spirit of Steamboat was the first One Book Wyoming selection...
“One of the greatest writers of our time.”—Toni Morrison You Don’t Know Us Negroesis the quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world’s most celebrated writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Spanning more than three decades and penned during the backdrop of the birth of th...
The atmosphere of the male-dominated writers’ room is convincingly depicted and Sally is a refreshingly well-written female lead character who isn’t defined by her feelings about having children. Sittenfeld uses some of the traditional tropes of the romantic comedy genre, particularly around ...