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Writers, editors, publishers and, yes, even readers respond to "The Confessions of a Semi-successful Author."
March 24, 2004
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In a new volume of advice to young writers, the great man of American letters weighs his own legacy -- and finds it wanting.
By Aaron Hicklin
April 14, 2003
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This film about old people, genius, love and light just might be a masterpiece.
By David Thomson
January 10, 2002
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As an unsuspecting adolescent searching my local library, I was lured into the smoky den of literature by Anaïs Nin's erotica.
By Kathy Wilson
August 29, 2001
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Scott Fitzgerald stole Zelda's ideas, plagiarized her diaries and even pushed her into an affair. He was arguably the worst husband of his generation -- and that made him its best author.
By Jonathon Keats
August 25, 2001
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Is a snooty "sentence cult" sending the Great American Novel to hell in a pretentious purple handbasket?
By Laura Miller
August 16, 2001
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Moviegoers and readers ought to learn to love the book and the film.
By Charles Taylor
April 24, 2001
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My son and I have a deal in which profanity begets literacy.
By Linda Specht
February 8, 2001
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Don George reads his essay on climbing Yosemite's most famous rock from the recently released "Salon.com's Wanderlust: Real-life Tales of
Adventure and Romance."
Read by Don George
December 1, 2000
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The plays may have been more scandalous than the author's sex life, but visitors still plant sexy kisses on his grave.
By Brent Gregston
November 30, 2000
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What big brown cigarettes you have!
By Martin F. Downs
October 23, 2000
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I use my book choices to attract women. Ciline got me a girl with pink hair.
By Mark Roberts
October 10, 2000
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Two writers wrestle with the impossibility of literature in a society that's afraid of the dark.
By Rick Moody and Mary Gaitskill
August 14, 2000
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He left me a reading list and a chaste warning about self-abuse. I devoured one, ignored the other and, eventually, became acquainted with the total literary experience.
By George Packer
June 15, 2000
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Sven Birkerts says computers are destroying literature. He couldn't be more wrong.
By Brigitte Frase
March 30, 2000
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Will MP3.com make you a rock star? Plus: If pilots can boost safety, your doctor ought to be able to; looking for literature's "real men."
Letters to the Editor
December 9, 1999
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Readers debate: Is Oprah good for books? Plus: Stop dissing "chick flicks"; why did A.M. Rosenthal save his scorn for black hatemongers?
Letters to the Editor
November 19, 1999
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Two new books offer tips and tales from the wild wide world.
By Don George
July 14, 1999
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Scanning the horizon for the hottest talents of the 21st century, we got a little dizzy and had to sit down.
By Carina Chocano
June 25, 1999
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Readers recommend their favorite works of travel fiction and nonfiction.
By Don George
June 23, 1999
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A selective sampling of the gleaming books that beckon summer travelers.
By Don George
June 9, 1999
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Why Ernest Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" is great literary comfort food.
By Don George
June 2, 1999
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What are the best travel books of the century? The readers respond.
By Don George
May 26, 1999
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Laurie Gough's "Kite Strings of the Southern Cross" poignantly depicts the pleasures and perils of wanderlust.
By Don George
May 5, 1999
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Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcma Marquez compares the president's fate to that of Hester Prynne.
By Gabriel Garcma Marquez
February 1, 1999