These days, if you use your book review to call an author a pervert and instruct him to abandon writing for the sake of public morality, most reputable editors will palm you a paltry kill fee and mothball your screed. Not so, it would seem, in 1890. Here’s how an outraged book critic for The […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-07-24 18:10:37 UTC ]
In 'Life B: Overcoming Double Depression,' book critic Bethanne Patrick writes of a life stifled by family commitments and undiagnosed mental illness — until now. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-05-16 13:00:23 UTC ]
Ross Douthat posted the first chapter, asking “What should I do with it?” We have ideas. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2023-01-06 10:40:00 UTC ]
In 2014, book critic Dwight Garner published a lament in the New York Times for a seemingly forgotten literary masterpiece, the oral history All God’s Dangers. Published in 1974 by then-Harvard doctoral candidate Theodore Rosengarten, the autobiography was narrated by Nate Shaw, an illiterate... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-06-06 08:51:52 UTC ]
A week ago, Peter R. de Vries, a star journalist in the Netherlands, was leaving a studio where he’d just appeared as a guest on a TV program, RTL Boulevard, when a gunman shot him five times, including in the head. De Vries has covered the criminal underworld dating back to the eighties and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-07-13 12:34:55 UTC ]
When pandemic New York seemed at its most surreal, the park, with its abundant wildlife and familiar progression of the seasons, offered a vision of normal life to a book critic who wandered it daily. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-03-04 10:00:21 UTC ]
Yesterday, writer and book critic Michael Schaub announced all the finalists for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award, which honors the “finest books” published in English during the last year. The thirty finalists were selected across six categories—Autobiography, Biography, Criticism,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-25 16:52:22 UTC ]
The book critic and Fake Accounts author says that smart readers are not being served by the publishing industry. The post Lauren Oyler on America’s Alienating Literary Culture appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2020-11-18 21:30:25 UTC ]
An interview with a book critic who's read more than 150 titles about the Trump era. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2020-10-22 22:15:00 UTC ]
Under a presidency that, perhaps more than any in recent memory, tends to be rendered in starkly moralistic terms, there is perhaps no better case study of the rise-and-fall character arc than Robert Mueller. Where the right always hated Mueller’s probe into Trump, Russia, and the 2016 campaign,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-09-23 12:32:09 UTC ]
Not to sound like an assistant district attorney from SVU, but it is beyond a shadow of a doubt that acclaimed essayist and book critic Ilana Masad has carved a prominent space for herself in the realm of mother-daughter literature with her debut novel, All My Mother’s Lovers. It sits upon a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-06-22 11:00:00 UTC ]
A book critic laments the decline in proper correspondence, and recalls the great letters of Ralph Ellison, Jean Rhys, Samuel Beckett and others. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-06-17 09:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Critic Circle, which was forced to cancel its awards ceremony due to the new coronavirus, announced the winners of is annual slate of literary book awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Critics Circle has announced 30 finalists in six categories––autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry––for the annual National Book Critic Circle Awards, which will be presented March 12 in New York. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-01-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
In this conversation with a featured speaker, PW checks in with Jennifer Finney Boylan, who will discuss gender and resistance with Parul Sehgal, 'New York Times' book critic, on Thursday, January 23. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-01-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
Carlos Lozada, an associate editor and book critic for The Washington Post, and David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2019-11-07 22:53:39 UTC ]
Author Elaine Kendall was a longtime book critic for the Los Angeles Times. She died in Montecito at age 91. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-08-12 22:46:20 UTC ]
In this episode of A Phone Call With Paul, Paul Holdengraber speaks with David Ulin, writer, and former book critic of the Los Angeles Times, about the dramatic changes in Los Angeles, the literature of the city, and his work on Joan Didion. From the episode: Paul Holdengraber: What are the most... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-10 08:47:10 UTC ]
This is a question as timeless as it is vexing, particularly if your work life is book-adjacent. Book critic extraordinaire Kate Tuttle claims to have finally pulled it off, citing a 6-to-5 books-to-days ratio (to the shock and admiration of her followers on Twitter). There are, of course, many... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-08 15:39:09 UTC ]
Lev Grossman, 'Time' magazine's book critic, was an informed and enthusiastic moderator for the May 29th BEA panel on animal fantasy in children's books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]