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Who are the best writers the world has ever known? Perhaps that’s not the real question: we should instead be asking, ‘how can we judge’? With that in mind one can begin to talk about criteria. One can think about which writers had the most influence on the world as a result of what they wrote, or how their writings changed the world.
The Best Writers of All Time
No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say
In an exclusive interview, the (former) novelist shares
his thoughts on Trump,
By CHARLES McGRATH JAN. 16, 2018
With the death of Richard Wilbur in October, Philip Roth became the longest-serving member in the literature department of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, that august Hall of Fame on Audubon Terrace in northern Manhattan, which is to the arts what Cooperstown is to baseball.
The death of writing – if James Joyce were alive today he’d be working for Google
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890), View of a River with Rowing Boats, Paris, Spring, 1887.
There’s hardly an instant of our lives that isn’t electronically documented. These days, it is software that maps our new experiences, our values and beliefs. How should a writer respond? Tom McCarthy on fiction in the age of data saturation
The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list / The 100 greatest non-fiction books
The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list
From Don Quixote to American Pastoral, take a look at the 100 greatest novels of all time
Mario Vargas Llosa’s ‘Notes on the Death of Culture’
The Girl Who Loved Books painting by Ken Hamilton
By JOSHUA COHENAUG. 17, 2015
Karl Ove Knausgaard: ‘Writing is a way of getting rid of shame’
Karl Ove Knausgaard, photographed outside his writing studio at home in Sweden: ‘I am just writing about my own discomfort in the culture.’ Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose for the Observer.
Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard’s bestselling, deeply exposing six-part memoir has been a literary sensation the world over – and upset not a few of his relatives. Here he talks about memory, male shame and why he can understand the warped thought processes of mass murderer Anders Breivik
Andrew Anthony, The Guardian, Sunday 1 March 2015
Umberto Eco’s How To Write a Thesis: A Witty, Irreverent & Highly Practical Guide Now Out in English
Image by Università Reggio Calabria, released under a C BY-SA 3.0 license.
March 23rd, 2015
In general, the how-to book—whether on beekeeping, piano-playing, or wilderness survival—is a dubious object, always running the risk of boring readers into despairing apathy or hopelessly perplexing them with complexity.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Life & Literature Introduced in a Monty Python-Style Animation
May 30th, 2016
“You know how earlier we were talking about Dostoyevsky?” asks David Brent, Ricky Gervais’ iconically insecure paper-company middle-manager central to the BBC’s original The Office. “Oh, yeah?” replies Ricky, the junior employee who had earlier that day demonstrated a knowledge of the influential Russian novelist apparently intimidating to his boss. “Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky. Born 1821. Died 1881,” recites Brent. “Just interested in him being exiled in Siberia for four years.” Ricky admits to not knowing much about that period of the writer’s life. “All it is is that he was a member of a secret political party,” Brent continues, drawing upon research clearly performed moments previous, “and they put him in a Siberian labour camp for four years, so, you know…”
Which Writer’s Letters Are Most Worth Reading?
Daguerreotype of the poet Emily Dickinson, taken circa 1848.
SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW, The New York Times, DEC. 2, 2014
By DANA STEVENS and FRANCINE PROSE
Each week in Bookends, two writers take on questions about the world of books. This week, Dana Stevens and Francine Prose discuss what they consider the most worthwhile literary letters.
Classics Stories by Edgar Allan Poe Narrated by James Mason in a 1953 Oscar-Nominated Animation & 1958 Decca Album
1848 «Ultima Thule» daguerreotype of Poe
Some enthusiasts of 19th-century American psychological horror master (or, in a very real sense, 19th-century American psychological horror inventor) Edgar Allan Poe find his work best read aloud.
Portraits of Virginia Woolf: here, the true face of the modern writer
Virginia Woolf photographed by Gisèle Freund, 1939. Click to enlarge. Photograph: National Portrait Gallery
Woolf was acutely self-conscious and disliked sitting for pictures never mind ‘seeing herself’. But a few rare portraits, often by her family or friends, capture her inner spirit.
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