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Salon.com
August 11, 2000
Laura Miller |
The death of the Red-Hot Center From literary giants tapping out the Great American novel through multiculturalism, Kmart realism and the Brat Pack to Oprah and your book club: A short history of fiction after 1960.   |
Salon.com
August 16, 2001
Laura Miller |
Sentenced to death Is a snooty "sentence cult" sending the Great American Novel to hell in a pretentious purple handbasket? |
Salon.com
April 3, 2002
Helen Macleod |
Mirror, mirror Alas, now even the great Ian McEwan has succumbed to the dreary trend of writers writing novels about writers writing novels... |
Wired
December 2002
Gary Wolf |
Solaris, Rediscovered Stanislaw Lem made hard science and deep philosophy into some of the greatest science fiction you've never seen. Now his classic Solaris is getting the Hollywood treatment. |
Reason
December 2008
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Tor's Worlds Without Death or Taxes When is a mainstream publisher also an anti-authoritarian propagandist? When it publishes science fiction. |
AskMen.com
February 15, 2015
Emma Overton |
Famous Literary Rejections Some of the greatest authors were rejected endlessly, so don't give up. |
Information Today
October 8, 2009 |
EBSCO Expands Coverage With New Literary Reference Center Plus The database expands upon EBSCO's Literary Reference Center and provides additional content including more than 1,100 reference books and more than 125 literary periodicals. |
Chemistry World
September 2008
Philip Ball |
Column: The crucible We are conditioned to look at anything scientific as though we were back at school anticipating an exam, even if we find it between the covers of a novel. In my novel The Sun and Moon Corrupted, I include equations and quotes from Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity |
Chemistry World
December 2008
Richard Van Noorden |
Editorial: Fiction failure Rare as it is for chemistry and its ideas to star in fiction, it's rarer still to find a story with a character who happens to be a chemist, but is also simply a well-rounded human being. |
Salon.com
November 26, 2002
Charles Taylor |
Kiss Miss Marple goodbye Scottish mystery author Val McDermid talks about the tough reality of life in today's Britain and why crime writers, not literary novelists, are the ones facing up to it. |
Salon.com
June 8, 2001
Matt Thorne |
Battle of the sexes When the women-only Orange Prize brought in a panel of male judges, they asked an age-old question: do men and women have different taste in books? |
Salon.com
January 3, 2001
Charles Taylor |
The crime of my life Election and recession getting you down? Check out the mystery novels that got me through a very tough year... |
Salon.com
September 7, 2001
Laura Miller |
Only correct Jonathan Franzen talks about the medicalization of love and loss, the charms of Narnia and living in an America where no one grows up... |
Salon.com
September 21, 2002
Charles Taylor |
Kids lit grows up Inspired by Harry Potter, bestselling authors Michael Chabon, Neil Gaiman, Carl Hiaasen and Isabel Allende are spearheading a renaissance in books that enchant readers of all ages. |
Salon.com
August 11, 2000
Andrew O'Hehir |
Stephen King A master of plot mechanics, he revived the moribund genre of horror literature and became the richest writer in history. We could do worse. |
Salon.com
February 27, 2002
Dorman Shindler |
The outsider Dan Simmons, whose novels range from science fiction to thrillers, talks about the feebleness of today's "serious" fiction and what we can all learn from Tom Wolfe... |
Salon.com
November 16, 2000
Laura Miller |
And the winner is ... The drama and the dish behind the literary prizes that shape what America reads... |
Salon.com
September 5, 2001
M.J. Rose |
Your ad here Dismayed authors respond to the news that a fancy jeweler paid a noted novelist to put its products front and center in her new book... |
Reason
May 2001
Nick Gillespie |
Don DeLillo's Bum Luck The novelist's low status in an age of cultural proliferation... |
Reason
October 2005
Mike Godwin |
Remains of the DNA The book Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro, shows how clones, like the rest of us, justify their own misery. |
Salon.com
December 4, 2000
Laura Miller |
Older and better Critic David Kipen talks about the publishing industry's youth fetish and his list of 50 great authors over 50... |
Salon.com
March 12, 2002
Charles Taylor |
A conversation with Jonathan Coe The author of "The Rotters' Club" talks about "pleasuring the reader," Henry Fielding, Dickens, Angus Wilson and Margaret Thatcher as a feminist icon... |
Salon.com
August 18, 2000
Jonathan Franzen |
Chained The author of "The 27th City" picks five great American novels about slavery. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2007
Zorpette & Ross |
The Books That Made A Difference Leading technologists name the novel that influenced them the most: Vinton Cerf, Google: The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien... Donald Christiansen, President of Informatica: War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk... etc. |
Salon.com
November 2, 2000
Lev Grossman |
Man, oh manifesto! A brash band of young writers issues a screed against "dinosaur" authors and calls for a return to storytelling... |
Salon.com
August 11, 2000
Laura Miller |
Alice Walker The stylistic constraints of "The Color Purple" kept her smug didacticism in check long enough to produce her one good book. |
Salon.com
May 28, 2002
Tom Bissell |
I'd prefer not to My list includes Toni Morrison, Henry James, Faulkner and Beckett. Why are there some great writers we just cannot read? |
ifeminists
August 24, 2008
Wendy McElroy |
Book Review: Come Away In her published novel "Come Away,"Canadian author Anne Hines explores an anomaly within the Bible. |
AskMen.com
August 1, 2012
Poe & Hill |
Novel Mistakes Today, if you want to be an author, you have to ask yourself only one question: Do you have a story to tell? Here are some tips to help you avoid the pitfalls many first-time novelists encounter. |
Popular Mechanics
April 21, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Hollywood Sci-Fi's Bronze Age: Are Comics to Blame? The big-screen iterations of Bruce Banner and Tony Stark are in mortal combat with smart science fiction. In a post-ComicCon, pre-summer blockbuster analysis, this article traces the decline of our favorite genre and looks for a future fix. |
Salon.com
October 5, 2000
Gary Krist |
"On Writing" by Stephen King Thankfully, if inexplicably, his how-to guide contains the harrowing true story of his nearly fatal car accident. But did we really need the best horror writer alive to explain his position on adverbs? |
Wired
December 2003
Frank Rose |
The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick The inside-out story of how a hyper-paranoid, pulp-fiction hack conquered the movie world 20 years after his death. |
DailyCandy
February 13, 2007 |
Remains of the Dude A new novel by Tom McCarthy proves that truth is stranger than fiction. |
Salon.com
November 17, 2000
Daniel Handler |
Winging it The author of "Watch Your Mouth" and "The Bad Beginning" picks five great books with "bird" in the title... |
Chemistry World
September 30, 2014
Ben Valsler |
Carl Djerassi - chemistry and theatre Despite a long and venerable career as an organic chemist -- he wrote novels and now teaches an interdisciplinary seminar on science and theatre. |
Salon.com
February 16, 2001
Alan Furst |
War zone The author of "Kingdom of Shadows" picks four great books that transport you to the '30s and '40s. |
