TIME

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JOHN LANCHESTER’S LAST NOVEL, Capital, published in 2012, was a Dickensian tour of London in the era of global capital—but before crises of xenophobia and worsening climate change came crashing down. The British journalist and novelist’s latest, The

Literary Hub

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I believe anybody can write a biography just as anybody can write a novel—but in both cases, you have to have a strong feeling for story. Also anybody can do research—but if you don’t know how to arrange facts in a way that build character and plot,

The Millions

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Throughout her life, Madeleine L’Engle, most famously known for her 1962 classic, A Wrinkle in Time, wrote 60 books. Penned by L’Engle’s granddaughters, Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Léna Roy, Becoming Madeleine: A Biography of the Author of A Wrinkle

Literary Hub

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This interview was conducted as the final plenary event of the Postmodernist Biofictions conference at the University of Reading on March 25th, 2017. Bethany Layne: […] What opportunities does the biographical novel offer, in contrast to traditional

The Millions

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One can hope that we might draw lessons from the Vietnam War’s legacy of near-erasure of non-white experiences; that the growth of veterans writing workshops and anthologies will represent to future generations a more complete picture of The Forever

Literary Hub

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Why does one write at all? After some 60 years spent in this pursuit, I still scarcely know. The first of my writings to be printed was, at the age of 10, a prize-winning essay in Little Folks. For this I received ten shillings and sixpence, a copy o

All About History

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Author Tilar J Mazzeo Publisher Gallery Books Price £10.99 Released Out now After the phenomenal global success of the musical Hamilton, there has been a renewed interest in Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, the wife of Alexander Hamilton. Tilar J Mazze

The Guardian

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When public discourse denigrates expertise, when politicians and Twitter trolls alike have learned to dismiss every criticism or uncomfortable truth as “fake” and media outlets compete for clickbait headlines, it’s not surprising to find a correspond

The Paris Review

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Born in London in 1945, Richard Holmes has written ten biographies and books of biographical essays. Even in his earliest works, Shelley (1974) and the two-volume Coleridge (1989, 1998), Holmes demonstrates a keen eye for place and a striking empathy

The Paris Review

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Anyone else might have easily written off a life of Véra Nabokov as impossible. In the two major biographies of her husband—both written during her lifetime, when she controlled access to his papers—she is a cipher. Her letters, either lost or destro

Writer's Digest

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Maybe there is a person who you have always been interested in. You’ve read as much as you could about them, but their story hasn’t been fully told. You begin to wonder … isn’t there a better interpretation of this individual’s life? Does the biograp

Literary Hub

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“Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.” –Mark Twain Looking back, I guess it’s best rationalized as a misguided click of the mouse or another impulsive online purchase. Whatever

The Paris Review

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Lamano Studios Over a century and a half ago, a columnist for the San Francisco Daily Dramatic Chronicle predicted that Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, was “bound to have a biographer one of these days—may it be a hundred years hence!” Albe

The American Scholar

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Nan A. Talese, 368 pp., $29.95 ONE OF THE QUESTIONS confronting biographers is the extent to which they should write themselves into the lives of others. Like an accompanist playing too loud alongside a musical performer, an intrusive narrator runs

The Christian Science Monitor

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Tomalin also sounds a subtly feminist note, revealing how a woman who’s been a daughter, wife, and mother slowly found a life of her own in the reading and writing of books.

The Paris Review

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Mary Frank and Sam Stephenson in Frank’s studio on West Nineteenth Street, New York, 2010. Photo: Kate Joyce Sam Stephenson’s biography, Gene Smith’s Sink: A Wide-Angle View, was published late last month. Its subject, the photographer W. Eugene Smit

Literary Hub

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It’s very strange to take a full year off of doing something that you’ve been doing for over 15 years, knowing that you’ll return to it but are utterly detached from it in the meantime. For me, that is teaching literature at the college level. Going

Literary Hub

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In post 11/8 America, the citizenry became more aware, more active, more willing to submit themselves to self-examination. Yet while the world of journals both print (Freeman’s), and online (Guernica, Lit Hub, Electric Literature), have increased the

Writing Magazine

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Win £400 and publication in New Welsh Review in the Language Evolves Short Story Competition, for original, unpublished short stories up to 2,500 words that imagine or engage with how language may have evolved, or may evolve in the future. The winner

Literary Hub

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Robert D. Richardson, who died in June, was known as an intellectual biographer. He should be known as a biographer of how to live. More specifically, he should be known as a writer who sought out and built scaffolding for the possibilities of self-t

Writing Magazine

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Juno Dawson’s Proud, an anthology of stories and poetry by YA LGBTQ+ authors, was named Book of the Year at the Visionary Honours 2020, the UK’s first showbiz awards to celebrate diversity and inclusion in the arts, culture and entertainment industri

The Writer

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How can we be more culturally sensitive in these challenging times? When is it OK to write about experiences that aren’t our own? These are two of the questions that international faculty members and attendees at the San Miguel Writers’ Conference &

Literary Hub

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William Faulkner and Sylvia Plath have been meticulously scrutinized in more than a dozen biographies. It might seem like a daunting, or perhaps even a redundant effort to research and write another one. But as Matthew Bruccoli said in justification

New Zealand Listener

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‘There is a black horse that rides through all my poems,” writes Elizabeth Morton in Tropes. Indeed there is. In her second collection, This is your real name, there is much melancholy, sorrow and loneliness. The opening poem, Untouch, suggests a sea

Literary Hub

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It is rare for a literary critic to remain alive for readers decades after his death—even rarer than for a novelist or a poet. Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) belonged to what Randall Jarrell called “the age of criticism,” a time when the analysis and ju

Literary Hub

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Literary biographers are in it for the long haul. Researching the lives of dead novelists and poets can take years. Ten is not unheard of, especially when the subject has not been “done” before. My first book, The Brontë Myth, took about eight years

The Writer

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When Jeanne McCulloch and Rex Weiner co-founded the Todos Santos Writers Workshop on the Pacific coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula seven years ago, they knew they wanted to create a community of writers in a location rich in history and culture. Each

Poets & Writers

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Feedback from readers Kevin Larimer’s “Maybe This Is Enough for Now” (July/August 2020), calmed the ruthless self-critic who kept nagging me for not using quarantine time to write. After reading the Editor’s Note, I recalled the 2019 Kauai Writers Co

The Millions

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Laurent Binet and Victor LaValle join the list. The post The Millions Top Ten: August 2017 appeared first on The Millions.

Writer's Digest

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Give your writing the love it deserves at this long-running specialty conference where romance is king. WHEN: July 24–27, 2019. WHERE: New York Marriott Marquis, New York City. PRICE: $549 for RWA members, $624 for nonmembers through June 26; $649