The Writers that Shadow Us
On the ghost of Graham Greene.
On the ghost of Graham Greene.
"One may be pardoned, yes I know / One may, for love undying."
Like his hero Hank Williams, Townes was a mean drunk, but with a selfless, compassionate streak.
We cannot know what we are doing. We can only know when we are doing it wrong.
I would not tear papers apart — say they're no good and say they don't work — unless I believed that all of you are capable of writing good fiction.
What Gold modeled for me was the idea that the writer delivers stories that the reader needs. The point is to do that job well.
I sometimes say that Jeremy Prynne taught me everything I know about poetry: which is why I know nothing about poetry.
Tintin est Mort!
"There are some howlers among the pros as delectable as the successes and just as fine a tool of learning."
For many years, I believed that my favorite novel was Catch-22.
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
Reconstructing the luminescent career of Willie John the “stone genius.”
There's no doubt that Hammons is one of the most important artists — conceptual, black, or otherwise — to emerge in America in the last 50 years.
Improvisation is an art of time in search of the present.
Part philosophy, part self-help, part experiment in nonfiction, part a book-length interview.