A Good Smucking Book
A brief review of Stephen King’s novel, Lisey’s Story.
Half the Battle: Part II (of 8)
[Note: The following series, Half The Battle, is culled from a long paper I had to write reflecting on my entire experience in Goddard College's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. It focuses on my creative thesis, a novel entitled, Gods of the Hills: An Act of Secession.]
I: Yo Joe!II: Walking Away Into [...]
The Unfilmables: A List of the Hardest Novels to Film
From The Unfilmables: A List of the Hardest Novels to Film: “Below are what I consider to be the most difficult novels to adapt, and who, if any, is fit to do that job.”
The Anxiety of Obsolescence
From The Anxiety of Obsolescence: “The Anxiety of Obsolescence explores the seemingly tenuous position of literary fiction in contemporary U.S. media culture, paying particular attention to the ways in which the novel has suggested its own demise through its representations of television and other late twentieth-century modes of communication.
A man cannot be contained
[Originally posted on MuchTooMuch]
I read Tom Wolfe’s essay, “The Three Stooges” last night, which you can find in his book, Hooking Up. The essay is his response to the negative criticisms that John Irving, Norman Mailer, and John Updike leveled against Wolfe’s bestselling novel, A Man in Full.
The essay then becomes a “State of the [...]
