By majority decision, the Man Booker Prize International Prize, which celebrates a writer’s “overall contribution to fiction” and “body of work,” has been awarded to Philip Roth. “Majority” in this case… 2 / Read more »
Will Self, writing at the The Guardian, describes an odd question posed at a seminar on “aging and fiction” seminar he attended. One elderly audience member asked if, due to the widespread… Read more »
A friend pointed us to a recent interview with the author Ian McEwan (author of Saturday, Solar, and Amsterdam, among many others) on the Books On the Nightstand podcast. Near… Read more »
For those of you concerned that Tao Lin had abandoned fiction-writing to direct feature films shot entirely on his MacBook, have no fear. In a New York Observer “Culture” article, Lin… Read more »
At The Awl, Maria Bustillos provides an in-depth look at David Foster Wallace’s psychology based in part on the scribbled notes inside his self-help books (taken from Wallace’s archives at The Ransom… Read more »
On 60 Minutes Sunday night Christopher Hitchens spoke with Steve Kroft about his life as a writer, intellectual, and as someone who is living with stage 4 esophageal cancer. Notable quotes from… Read more »
Sam Anderson has left his position as New York Magazine book critic to join the staff at The New York Times Magazine. In 2009, in an interview with The Rumpus, he… 2 / Read more »
What is it with sleep and artistic genius, asks Shalom Auslander in an essay for Tablet Magazine: Paul McCartney, who might be a genius but definitely isn’t really a genius-genius,… 2 / Read more »
Sonya Chung had an essay (“What We Teach When We Teach Writers: On The Quantifiable and the Uncertain”) in The Millions on Friday that’s an interesting companion to Nathan’s piece… Read more »
Jacques Derrida discusses his anxiety about writing in the video below, from a 2002 interview.