Tag: Writing

52 Results

| April 19, 2010

I wuz robbed

Ken Auletta writes: Publishers maintain that digital companies don’t understand the creative process of books. A...

| March 22, 2010

belletristesse

Thomas Mallon has collected a book of letters, and laments the loss of letter-writing culture. Louis Bayard thinks...

| March 19, 2010

pen in hand

Here’s a statement that will find its way into my book on reading: Of course, you can’t take your pen to the...

| December 8, 2009

the tired writer

Two years ago, soon after the release of her novel The Maytrees, Annie Dillard said — it wasn’t a formal...

| October 13, 2009

about close reading

I don’t think this post by Alex Reid is on the right track: Close reading, if you don’t know, comes out the...

| August 19, 2009

new horizons

Hmmm. Response to my earlier post on my self-announced candidacy for Apple’s Board of Directors has been . . . I...