Tuesday, August 30 2011
Ernest Hemingway, Reporter
The years spent as a reporter painting the scene in Parisian cafes and on tuna fishing boats in Spain sharpened Ernest Hemingway's ability to carefully, confidently build a story.
Wednesday, July 6 2011
Print-On-Demand and the Future of Independent Publishing, Part 1
In part one of this two-part look at the world of Print-On-Demand books, PopMatters speaks to major figureheads in the POD industry to determine where it is, what it can do, and most importantly, where it's going ...
Monday, March 21 2011
Botticelli, Sandwiches Outside and Dreams of Bradbury’s ‘Dandelion Wine’
Boxed in by bandage-colored cubicle walls in downtown Manhattan, my thoughts drift to sweet days in Florence and Rome, and to lines in Ray Bradbury’s ‘Dandelion Wine’.
Monday, November 29 2010
‘The Elephant’s Journey’ Carries the Reader Along on this Shared Endeavor
Saramago's trickery emphasizes an obvious, but often neglected, point about literature: words create reality rather than merely transcribe it.
Monday, November 1 2010
Ray Bradbury Wrote Me Back
My affinity for Ray Bradbury's work is rooted in his "accidental novels", as well as in the collections that plunder what is seemingly a limitless vault of manuscripts.
Wednesday, April 14 2010
Too Much Pop Culture? A Look at Lise Haines’ Girl in the Arena
Do pop culture references in contemporary YA and literary fiction hinder the longevity and relevance of modern writing?
Tuesday, March 30 2010
The Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux
Writing a novel about writer’s block is a bit like cleaning a revolver when you’re not entirely incapable of suicide. Paul Theroux’s new book, a clumsy attempt at the mystery novel, goes off in his own hand.
Monday, February 15 2010
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
Entirely too long at 117 pages, Don DeLillo’s latest novel was inspired by an installation at the Museum of Modern Art in 2006 called 24 Hour Psycho.
Tuesday, November 10 2009
The Humbling by Philip Roth
Simon Axler, a stage and screen actor of near legendary stature, has earned the “reputation as the last of the best of the classical American stage actors.” The novel begins: “He’d lost his magic.”
