Maya Angelou on how to get something for nothing
Here’s an animated conversation between Maya Angelou and Studs Terkel, on stories told to her by con men when she was young. The interview took place in the 1970s, and… Read more »
Grandson convinced Maya Angelou to collaborate on a hip hop album
In a new album titled Caged Bird Songs—you can guess which book inspired this—Shawn Rivera and Roccstar will sample Maya Angelou’s voice. The producers initiated the project before Angelou knew about it, but she agreed… Read more »
Leon Wieseltier, Washington National
Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, once wrote that “the most disturbing quality about [Bill] Clinton” was “his indifference to contradiction.” In the same essay, Wieseltier called… Read more »
McBride, Packer win big at the 2013 National Book Awards
On Wednesday evening, the winners of the 2013 National Book Award were announced at a ceremony at Cipriani in Manhattan. The winners (drumroll, please) were: Fiction: The Good Lord Bird, by… Read more »
Fighting the blank page: how famous writers stopped procrastinating
Do you tell people you’re writing a novel? It might be better to go with something like, “I am trying to write a novel,” because if you are indeed tackling… Read more »