Writing

Writers in love

The selfishness of the artistic temperament makes for a dangerous mate

Cary Tennis Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 34
Life Since You Asked, Writers, Writing

“Waiting to Exhale” author Terry McMillan deletes offensive tweets about Mexicans

She insists, however, that they were taken out of context

Prachi Gupta Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 11:13 PM UTC 56
Entertainment terry mcmillan, Racism, Twitter

Anne Rice defends Paula Deen: “This looks like a crucifixion”

The novelist compares critics of the disgraced celebrity chef to a "lynch mob"

Prachi Gupta Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 4:03 PM UTC 32
Entertainment Paula Deen, Food Network

“Salinger” documentary pieces together novelist’s private life and writing

The film examines why the reclusive writer stopped publishing in 1965 VIDEO

Prachi Gupta Friday, Jun 14, 2013 2:18 PM UTC
Entertainment Video, J.D. Salinger

Teju Cole: If you had to focus on just one living writer or musician, who would it be?

Writers and journalists respond to the question posed by the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning writer

Prachi Gupta Thursday, Jun 6, 2013 8:22 PM UTC 20
Entertainment Books, literature, teju cole

A.M. Homes: “We still live in a world where the work of male writers dominates”

The American writer won the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction, beating writers like Zadie Smith and Hilary Mantel

Prachi Gupta Thursday, Jun 6, 2013 3:30 PM UTC
Entertainment Books, women, Writing, literature

White pride in my classroom

He made me uncomfortable and challenged my worldview. But the biggest surprise: I ended up liking him

Ben Warner Wednesday, Jun 5, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 413
Life Life stories, Education, Racism

Rudyard Kipling letter suggests he plagiarized parts of “The Jungle Book”

19th century writer admits that he took "promiscuously" from other sources when penning "The Law of the Jungle"

Prachi Gupta Tuesday, May 28, 2013 5:19 PM UTC
Entertainment rudyard kipling

It’s OK to use incomplete sentences. Really

Forget what you learned in school. When it comes to writing sentence fragments, even Shakespeare broke the rules

James Harbeck, The Week Thursday, Apr 18, 2013 6:45 PM UTC 46
Life The Week, Language, Grammar

Irish coin commemorating James Joyce misquotes “Ulysses”

The bank acknowledges its mistake, but dismisses it as "artistic representation"

Prachi Gupta Friday, Apr 12, 2013 3:56 PM UTC 15
Entertainment James Joyce, ulysses, Ireland

Inside the topsy-turvy world of contronyms

Fourteen words that, depending on their context, can mean the opposite of what you think they mean

Judith B. Herman, The Week Sunday, Apr 7, 2013 8:00 PM UTC 22
Life The Week, words, Language

Is journalism killing my creativity?

I'm a successful journalist, but I get stuck on novels and creative nonfiction

Cary Tennis Monday, Apr 1, 2013 12:00 AM UTC
Life Since You Asked, Writing, Writers

William Faulkner’s medal, writing to go up for auction

Among the items: his Nobel diploma and speech draft, unpublished letters and other writing

Prachi Gupta Thursday, Mar 28, 2013 3:26 PM UTC
Entertainment William Faulkner, sotheby's

I did not write a YA novel!

This publisher says I should make my novel over for young adults. But it's for grown-ups!

Cary Tennis Thursday, Mar 28, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 23
Life Since You Asked, Publishing

I froze up in the writers’ room

Went to L.A. but something went wrong. Maybe I wasn't meant to be there?

Cary Tennis Thursday, Mar 21, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 12
Life Since You Asked

My friend says I should kill myself

After a horrific childhood, I find solace in art. But life is hard. Is it worth it?

Cary Tennis Monday, Mar 18, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 48
Life Since You Asked, Suicide

Long-lost Robert Louis Stevenson essay published

In it, the "Treasure Island" author says that most fiction from his era bored him

Hillel Italie, Associated Press Thursday, Mar 14, 2013 3:08 PM UTC
Entertainment From the Wires

Sam Lipsyte’s latest: Less than the sum of its “Fun Parts”

In his new collection of short stories, the author of "The Ask" amuses himself -- and only occasionally his reader

Michael Bourne, LA Review of Books Thursday, Mar 7, 2013 7:58 PM UTC
Entertainment LA Review of Books, Books

American scholar discovers trove of unpublished Rudyard Kipling poems

Thomas Pinney found more than 50 works, which will be released in March

Prachi Gupta Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 2:00 PM UTC
Entertainment rudyard kipling, Poetry

My awful past keeps me from writing

I had such a horrible childhood that the anxiety and fear are paralyzing

Cary Tennis Monday, Feb 25, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 13
Life Since You Asked, Writing

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