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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.   |
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. |
Wired
January 18, 2008
Clive Thompson |
Clive Thompson on Why Sci-Fi Is the Last Bastion of Philosophical Writing If you want to read books that tackle profound philosophical questions, then the best -- and perhaps only -- place to turn these days is science fiction. |
Chemistry World
November 2009 |
Poetic science A year as a Royal Literary Fund fellow based in the chemistry department of Edinburgh University, UK, has made me ponder the connections between science and poetry. |
Reason
May 2001
Nick Gillespie |
Don DeLillo's Bum Luck The novelist's low status in an age of cultural proliferation... |
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... |
AskMen.com
February 15, 2015
Emma Overton |
Famous Literary Rejections Some of the greatest authors were rejected endlessly, so don't give up. |
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
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
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
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? |
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... |
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
July 6, 2000
John Farrell |
Did Einstein cheat? Is the great physicist's most famous theory a crock? Members of the anti-relativity underground think so. |
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
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
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... |
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. |
