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Banville's Future 20 Jan 2008 | 05:10 pm
Cast your mind forward to 2050. In a biographical dictionary you read: 'Banville, John: Irish author of numerous novels, all of which are entirely forgotten. Chiefly remembered for a scurrilous review...
Why One Hasn't Written A Novel 20 Jan 2008 | 05:00 pm
John Updike's goal is 1,000 words a day. Richard Ford awakes at six so he can begin as soon as possible. Philip Roth follows Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Wolfe in preferring to stand for hours on en...
Loosen Up, LitMags 18 Jan 2008 | 06:50 pm
Editor Dan Crowe talks of the present and future of literary magazines, using Granta as a case in point: "With the deaths of George Plimpton, founder of the Paris Review, and Barbara Epstein, a foundi...
Amis Again 17 Jan 2008 | 07:13 pm
Apologies for going on about Martin Amis' new book yet again, but here's another review by David Aaronovitch that's more sympathetic, more considered, and, as such, definitely worth reading: "Through ...
Great, But Can We Have Banville Back, Please? 16 Jan 2008 | 07:00 pm
The New York Times Sunday magazine begins to serialise Benjamin Black's new novel, The Lemur.
More Elmore 16 Jan 2008 | 06:52 pm
After Stephen King, it's Elmore Leonard's turn to tell you about what makes writing stand out, with his Ten Rules of Good Writing. Rule # 10: "Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip." Sim...
Wodehouse, The Realist 14 Jan 2008 | 08:57 pm
David Twiston-Davies reviews A Wodehouse Handbook: The World and Words of P. G. Wodehouse by N.P.T. Murphy: "The great myth about P.G. Wodehouse, until he died at 93 in 1975, was that his characters h...
BritLit 14 Jan 2008 | 08:38 pm
Reviews of Martin Amis' views on a post-9/11 world, The Second Plane, are being written, and all of them will, inevitably, mention Terry Eagleton. Such as this one (forgive the long extract, but somet...
Move Over, Berners-Lee 7 Jan 2008 | 06:51 pm
"...a growing number of contemporary commentators — whether literature professors or cultural critics like Umberto Eco — have concluded that Borges uniquely, bizarrely, prefigured the World Wide Web."
Teaching Skill, Not Talent 7 Jan 2008 | 06:19 pm
"...when it comes to teaching creative writing, good intentions are nothing but paving material for the route to dull-prose hell." Nathan Whitlock adds to the debate over whether creative writing clas...
