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OPINION: The road to fascinating reading by Nevada writers starts here – The Nevada Independent
OPINION: The road to fascinating reading by Nevada writers starts here This holiday season, give the gift of gritty insider accounts, compelling history and poetic beauty from Silver State scribes. By John L. Smith, December 14th, 2025 at 2:00 AM Opinion Cars drive along the Las Vegas Strip on Aug. 2, 2025. (John Locher/The Associated…
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The Vanishing White Male Writer – Compact Magazine – March 21, 2025
It’s easy enough to trace the decline of young white men in American letters—just browse The New York Times’s “Notable Fiction” list. In 2012 the Times included seven white American men under the age of 43 (the cut-off for a millennial today); in 2013 there were six, in 2014 there were six. And then the…
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Randall Kenan’s posthumous work: collecting my friend’s unfinished novel and uncollected essays after he died | Slate
By Daniel Wallace, April 03, 20235:50 AM When writers die, they sometimes leave a raft of unfinished work behind, in various stages of incompletion. It’s not uncommon to find most of a book or a hefty number of poems, stories, or essays languishing in a desk drawer, where these things used to languish, or these…
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The George Saunders Guide to Compassion, Forgiveness, and Finding Hope Amid Dystopia | GQ
The great American writer and avuncular genius offers some wide-ranging advice on how to channel your ambitions, manage your anxieties, decide who to marry, be your best self, and find hope in strange times. By Clay Skipper, October 19, 2022 At 63, George Saunders, a one-time geophysical engineer who emerged, in middle age, as perhaps…
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Why Novelists Are Embracing Substack – Can Substack Reinvent the Social Internet?
But the success of their migration depends on whether—or not—the social Internet can function like a writing workshop. By Adrienne Westenfeld, Mar 9, 2022 When George Saunders went out to his writing shed to start a Substack newsletter last fall, for the first time in a long time, the Booker Prize-winning novelist, famous for such…
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Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 16
Interviewed by Richard H. Goldstone Issue 15, Winter 1956 A national newsmagazine not very long ago in its weekly cover story limned Thornton Wilder as an amiable, eccentric itinerant schoolmaster who wrote occasional novels and plays, which won prizes and enjoyed enormous but somewhat unaccountable success. Wilder himself has said, “I’m almost sixty and look…
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Shakespeare and Company Project
Recreating the world of the Lost Generation in interwar Paris Gertrude Stein. James Joyce. Ernest Hemingway. Aimé Césaire. Simone de Beauvoir. Jacques Lacan. Walter Benjamin. All these writers were members of the Shakespeare and Company lending library. In 1919, an American named Sylvia Beach opened Shakespeare and Company, an English-language bookshop and lending library in…
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How Hollywood Writers Won a War | Vanity Fair
In April 2019, thousands of Hollywood writers fired their agents en masse. The move convulsed the entertainment industry. It looked like an impossible David and Goliath scenario: The Writers Guild of America had declared war on the immensely powerful talent agencies, several of which had mutated into full-blown media conglomerates over the years, backed by…
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John D. MacDonald’s Mission to Save Florida | CrimeReads
“Last fall, as part of the annual Bouchercon celebration of mysteries and their authors, one panel was devoted to discussing a writer who’s been dead for three decades and a character who last appeared in a book when Reagan was in the White House. One of the panelists, Ace Atkins (The Sinners) showed up in…
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A Literary Guide to Washington, D.C.: Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers Webcast | Library of Congress
Kim Roberts discusses her book, “A Literary Guide to Washington, D.C.: Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston.” Editor’s Note: The below can be clicked to view, or visit the direct source to view the video… //cdn.loc.gov/loader/embed//embed-with-loader.php?uuid=826C070CB7190182E0538C93F1160182&size=largeWide&name=&type=V&image=//stream-media.loc.gov/webcasts/2018/180907rbk1500/data/180907rbk1500_1280x720_2000_bg.jpg Source: A Literary Guide to Washington, D.C.: Walking in the…
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The Writer’s Almanac
Editor’s Note: I was pleased and happy to discover that Garrison Keillor had resumed his “The Writer’s Almanac” podcasts. You can listen to them here: https://art19.com/shows/the-writers-almanac “The Writer’s Almanac is a daily podcast of poetry and historical interest pieces, usually of literary significance, hosted by Garrison Keillor.” Source: The Writer’s Almanac
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The Open Library Now Faces The National Writers Union
After the UK’s Society of Authors asked the Open Library to stop making its scanned books available to people in the UK, the US’ National Writers Union published a letter making similar demands. Source: The Open Library Now Faces The National Writers Union
