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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
"The Spooky Art" by Norman Mailer
"Iris"
Sex and the open stacks
For the love of literature
Sentenced to death
Show and tell
Hip-hop parenting
"Conquering Half Dome"
The Oscar Wilde centenary
My contribution to granny lit
Reading on the train
Sex, capitalism and antidepressants
My father's legacy
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