Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis Dabney
by Ron Capshaw
June 4th, 2007
1916 Princeton, a young and still slender Edmund Wilson was advised by professors to “seek the truth, no matter where it lay or who it hurt.”
Archive for the ‘Writers’ Category
The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos and the Murder of Jose Robles by Steven Koch
by Ron Capshaw
April 10th, 2007
A ghost is a spirit who won’t stay dead.
An Interview With Thriller Writer Stephen White
by Paul Comstock
April 3rd, 2007
“When I started writing the pages in 1989 that later evolved to became my first book, I had no intent, conception, premonition, or clue that I was creating characters that would endure for over a dozen books.”
An Interview With Novelist Amanda Eyre Ward
by Uma Girish
April 3rd, 2007
“I am most fascinated when a straightforward story seems to hold hidden complexities. Every conversation holds secrets, and every town has its mysteries. Nothing is ever simple.”
An Interview With Novelist Indu Sundaresan
by Uma Girish
April 3rd, 2007
“In the initial foray into reading for each of the novels, there is always a lot of imbibing of the background and atmosphere, a searching for story, an investigation into details. Then, I will settle into intensive research - read and reread a few select books and manuscripts, cull points of interest, look for aspects that provide movement in my own story.”
A Visit With Author Colleen McCullough
by Judy Huston
April 3rd, 2007
“I thought I should live closer, but I didn’t want to be on the same piece of land as my mother…She was a hard person to get on with, and not a very good mother. In all our lives with her, my brother and I never got a hug or a kiss. She was that kind of mother, and my father was anywhere but at home. At the same time we were raised with a sense of duty, and duty to me is as important as love, if not more important. My book, An Indecent Obsession was about duty.”
An Interview With Nancy Means Wright
by Deborah Straw
April 3rd, 2007
“I guess liking mysteries goes back to Aristotle, who said we read or watch tragedy because the bad stuff happens to someone else and we feel relieved that we’re still alive, and the perpetrator takes the blame for what happened. It’s a catharsis.”
Timothy Watts Interview
by Paul Comstock
March 31st, 2007
“He’s actually a pretty good mechanic and somewhere in Philadelphia he’s running a pretty successful chop shop to this day.”
Bush Tea with Alexander McCall Smith
by Uma Girish
March 31st, 2007
“I believe that people are very interested in reading about the ordinary things of life. One can make a very simple situation seem interesting — often it is very simple matters that arouse most passions in people.”
Confessions of a Porn Writer
by Kelly Hartog
March 31st, 2007
“I had been hired to write a movie for the Playboy channel – soft porn. I didn’t know that Playboy had co-financed it with an adult film company and suddenly there were many different versions of my film.”
