Robert Stone, 77, died on January 10 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; and although he outlived the period that best characterized his creative work for decades, somehow he remained the writer of the sixties and the seventies whose best works embodied the madness, violence and nihilism of that time. His… Read More →
Have you ever been lucky enough to see how Kent Haruf works on his masterpieces? If yes, then you have definitely seen how he pulls a wool cap on the eyes, sits down in front of the manual typewriter and fully dives into the process of creation. He used to… Read More →
British author of children’s books, Allan Ahlberg, has declined the inaugural Booktrust Best Books Lifetime Achievement Award on a pretext that it is sponsored by Amazon. He states that his dislike of Amazon is based on ‘ethical grounds’: because of numerous reports of Amazon’s tax evasion in the UK Ahlberg… Read More →
Thomas Berger, the author of a critically acclaimed novel The Little Big Man and a number of a large collection of other books of multiple genres, died on July 13 in Nyack, N.Y., leaving his wife, Jeanne Redpath Berger, as his only survivor. Berger has always been a bit of… Read More →
Here is a list of some of the most well-known memoirs for you to read and think about. Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory Nabokov may be a Russian-speaking writer originally, but it is one of the things that makes him special – he writes in English, and his mastery of… Read More →
Peter Matthiessen, a popular author well-known both for his fiction and non-fiction, died on April 5 in his home in Sagaponack, N.Y., at the age of 86. The cause of death, according to his son Alex, was leukemia – he was diagnosed with it about a year ago. The admirers… Read More →
Gary Arlington did not dream big. He was just a guy with no money, no food, not even his own coach to sleep on. Nevertheless, he had thousands of comics, stuffed up in his parents’ basement since his childhood and he was going to earn his living selling them. Little… Read More →
Philip Roth, the world-famous fiction writer, remains true to his decision to leave literature. He finished his last book in 2009, and since that time, according to him, he hasn’t written a word. «I have no desire to write fiction» – insists Roth in his last interview. It is hard… Read More →
Even the most beautiful people have to die; Maxine Kumin, an exceptional U.S. poet, died recently at the age of 88. “Roberta Frost”, as some of her friends and devotees called her, drifted away peacefully at her farm in Warner, New Hampshire. It’s a relief, that her final book “And… Read More →
Apparently, in order to become a publishing writer one doesn’t have to, well, be a writer at all. It has been announced that B.J. Novak, most well-known for his roles in such movies as “Inglourious Basterds”, “The Office” and “The Mindy Project” has signed a two-book deal with Penguin Young… Read More →
