Tag Archives: Writing and Writers

The New York Times 9:00 am on March 18, 2023
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The Many Lives of Jeannette Walls

The writer of “The Glass Castle” starts a new chapter with a rip-roaring novel set during Prohibition.

#books-and-literature, #content-type-personal-profile, #hang-the-moon-book, #the-glass-castle-book, #walls-jeannette, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 11:13 pm on March 15, 2023
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John Jakes, Who Hit the Jackpot With Historical Novels, Dies at 90

His sagas of the Revolution and the Civil War sold tens of millions of copies, were adapted for TV and put him in the pantheon of big-name authors.

#book-trade-and-publishing, #books-and-literature, #deaths-obituaries, #jakes-john, #north-and-south-book, #the-kent-family-chronicles, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 10:00 am on March 11, 2023
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Brett Goldstein Faces Life After ‘Ted Lasso’

The Apple TV+ show’s breakout star is preparing to play a Marvel movie god when he’s not working on the hit streaming series “Shrinking.” But what he’s really after is human connection.

#actors-and-actresses, #comedy-and-humor, #comic-books-and-strips, #content-type-personal-profile, #england, #goldstein-brett-1980, #movies, #shrinking-tv-program, #soccer, #ted-lasso-tv-program, #television, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 11:28 pm on March 8, 2023
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Ian Falconer, Creator of Olivia, the Energetic Piglet, Dies at 63

He was a stage designer noted for his work in opera when he hit the best-seller list in 2000 with the first in a series of books for children.

#art, #books-and-literature, #children-and-childhood, #deaths-obituaries, #falconer-ian, #genre-books-childrens, #hockney-david, #magazines, #new-yorker, #olivia-book, #opera, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 1:09 pm on March 8, 2023
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The Essential Patricia Highsmith

Known for her psychopathic antiheroes and novels such as “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “The Price of Salt,” Highsmith was a tangle of contradictions.

#carol-movie, #content-type-personal-profile, #frauds-and-swindling, #genre-books-thriller, #highsmith-patricia, #patricia-highsmith-her-diaries-and-notebooks-1941-1995-book, #the-price-of-salt-book, #the-talented-miss-highsmith-the-secret-life-and-serious-art-of-patricia-highsmith-book, #the-talented-mr-ripley-book, #women-and-girls, #women-crime-writers-eight-suspense-novels-of-the-1940s-and-1950s-book, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 5:07 pm on March 7, 2023
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Judy Blume Finally Got a ‘Yes’ From Hollywood

Decades after she first discussed translating her work to film and television, the Blume-aissance is upon us. All it needed was for Judy Blume fans to take charge in the entertainment industry.

#blume-judy, #books-and-literature, #brooks-james-l, #craig-kelly-fremon, #documentary-films-and-programs, #internal-sub-only, #movies, #oppenheimer-mark, #television, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 10:00 am on March 6, 2023
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Maryse Condé, at Home in the World

Throughout her four-decade literary career, the Guadeloupean writer has explored a global vision of the Black diaspora, and placed Caribbean life at the center.

#black-people, #books-and-literature, #caribbean-area, #conde-maryse, #content-type-personal-profile, #france, #guadeloupe, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 2:00 pm on March 4, 2023
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Imagine What These Women Could’ve Done if They’d Had Wives

What ‘Lives of the Wives’ tells us about modern marriage.

#dahl-roald, #internal-sub-only-nl, #lives-of-the-wives-five-literary-marriages-book, #marriages, #morrison-toni, #same-sex-marriage-civil-unions-and-domestic-partnerships, #wages-and-salaries, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 10:00 am on March 3, 2023
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The Truth About the ‘Censorship’ of Roald Dahl

The corporate context in which the changes were made is what should really worry us.

#books-and-literature, #censorship, #culture-arts, #dahl-roald, #netflix-inc, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 5:00 pm on February 28, 2023
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Bernard Henri-Lévy Chooses War Zones in Ukraine Over Salons

In a new film, “Slava Ukraini,” the writer and filmmaker Bernard Henri-Lévy warns of a heavy price if the West fails to defeat Putin in Ukraine.

#content-type-personal-profile, #documentary-films-and-programs, #france, #international-relations, #levy-bernard-henri, #russian-invasion-of-ukraine-2022, #slava-ukraini-movie, #ukraine, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 4:37 pm on February 28, 2023
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C.S. Lewis’s Oxford: Where the Lion and the Witch Met the Hobbit

Discovering the sites in Oxford where C.S. Lewis, the writer of over 30 books, including the “Chronicles of Narnia” series, found faith, inspiration and a life-changing friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien.

#books-and-literature, #christians-and-christianity, #colleges-and-universities, #lewis-c-s, #oxford-england, #oxford-university, #tolkien-j-r-r, #travel-and-vacations, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 10:00 am on February 24, 2023
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The War on Books, Librarians and Sex Comes to North Dakota

As a gay young person, I found refuge in libraries. Now in my state and others, they are under attack.

#books-and-literature, #homosexuality-and-bisexuality, #libraries-and-librarians, #north-dakota, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 4:43 pm on February 20, 2023
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Roald Dahl’s Books Are Rewritten to Cut Potentially Offensive Language

New editions of the best-selling author’s children’s classics, including “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” have been altered to eliminate words deemed inappropriate. A backlash ensued.

#books-and-literature, #children-and-childhood, #dahl-roald, #freedom-of-speech-and-expression, #puffin-books, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 10:58 pm on February 17, 2023
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Donald Spoto, Biographer of Hitchcock and Many More, Dies at 81

He wrote more than two dozen books, including richly detailed biographies of Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Laurence Olivier and Jesus.

#actors-and-actresses, #books-and-literature, #deaths-obituaries, #hitchcock-alfred, #monroe-marilyn, #olivier-laurence, #spoto-donald, #the-dark-side-of-genius-the-life-of-alfred-hitchcock-book, #williams-tennessee, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 5:56 pm on February 17, 2023
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Book Review Podcast: Public Libraries, and Profiling Paul Harding

A celebration of community libraries and their expanding role, and a look at the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding.

#books-and-literature, #harding-paul, #libraries-and-librarians, #podcasts, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 10:00 am on February 16, 2023
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In Defense of J.K. Rowling

The charge that she’s a transphobe doesn’t square with her actual views.

#gender, #phelps-roper-megan, #rowling-j-k, #transgender-and-transsexuals, #womens-rights, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 2:37 pm on February 11, 2023
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How Watching (and Listening to) Sports Made Me Who I Am

My hypochondria eventually passed, leaving me as mysteriously as it seized me, but my love of sports never did.

#anxiety-and-stress, #athletics-and-sports, #basketball, #fans-persons, #football, #hypochondria, #television, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 10:00 am on February 7, 2023
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Mieko Kawakami Is a Feminist Icon in Japan. She Has Other Ambitions.

Will the Japanese novelist Mieko Kawakami’s stark explorations of class translate to American readers?

#abe-shinzo, #books-and-literature, #breasts-and-eggs-book, #japan, #kawakami-mieko, #murakami-haruki, #women-and-girls, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 10:00 am on February 3, 2023
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Gawker Is Dead (Again) But Its Influence Lives On

It started with smirk and it ended with a bang, and in between it changed the media universe.

#baldwin-alec, #brown-michael-1996-2014, #celebrities, #computers-and-the-internet, #decisions-and-verdicts, #denton-nick, #epstein-jeffrey-e-1953, #freedom-of-the-press, #goldberg-bryan-1983, #high-net-worth-individuals, #hogan-hulk, #magazines, #manhattan-nyc, #musk-elon, #new-york-city, #news-and-news-media, #social-media, #stalking-crime, #stewart-jon, #suits-and-litigation-civil, #television, #thiel-peter-a, #wrestling, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 10:00 am on February 2, 2023
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Alex Prud’homme Wishes He Was in the Room Where It Happened

“That toothsome meal arguably saved the Republic,” says the journalist, whose new book is “Dinner With the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House,” of Thomas Jefferson’s so-called Dinner Table Bargain. “The debate at Jefferson’s reverberates today.”

#books-and-literature, #content-type-personal-profile, #food, #prudhomme-alex, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 2:26 pm on January 30, 2023
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Her Culture Was Suppressed for Centuries. Now It Powers Her Best Seller.

Ann-Helén Laestadius grew up among the Sámi, an Indigenous people living near the Arctic Circle, in Europe. Her novel, “Stolen,” a success in her native Sweden, reflects that culture to a broad audience.

#books-and-literature, #content-type-personal-profile, #discrimination, #indigenous-people, #laestadius-ann-helen, #reindeer, #samis-ethnic-group, #sweden, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 10:00 am on January 26, 2023
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Patricia Engel’s Enduring Friendships Always Include Books

“It touches me when people ask me to read a book because it’s special to them,” says the fiction writer, whose new book is the story collection “The Faraway World.” “It’s like being granted permission to peek inside their soul.”

#books-and-literature, #content-type-personal-profile, #engel-patricia, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 5:07 pm on January 24, 2023
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Victor S. Navasky, a Leading Liberal Voice in Journalism, Dies at 90

Witty and contrarian, he was the longtime editor and later publisher of The Nation and wrote an acclaimed book about the Hollywood blacklisting era.

#deaths-obituaries, #journalism, #magazines, #monocle, #naming-names-book, #nation-the-magazine, #navasky-victor-saul, #new-york-times, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 12:05 am on January 23, 2023
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Paul Harding Captures the Quiet Side of Calamity

It took the author a decade, and some luck, to publish his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Tinkers.” He’s back with another devastating tale, “This Other Eden.”

#books-and-literature, #content-type-personal-profile, #harding-paul, #maine, #pulitzer-prizes, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 10:00 am on January 19, 2023
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‘Vile,’ ‘Deplorable,’ ‘Full of Lies’: Aleksandar Hemon Is No Fan of Philip Roth

“Roth’s steadfast commitment to the many privileges of male whiteness reliably repels me,” says Hemon, whose new novel is “The World and All That It Holds.” “I also dislike a lot of recent books, but I don’t wish to name them.”

#books-and-literature, #content-type-personal-profile, #hemon-aleksandar, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 1:19 pm on January 16, 2023
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A Fake Death in Romancelandia

A Tennessee homemaker entered the online world of romance writers and it became, in her words, “an addiction.” Things went downhill from there.

#books-and-literature, #hoaxes-and-pranks, #internal-sub-only, #meachen-susan-author, #mental-health-and-disorders, #social-media, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 2:04 pm on January 13, 2023
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She Witnessed Mao’s Worst Excesses. Now She Has a Warning for the World.

At 93, the memoirist Yuan-tsung Chen hopes that her recollections of China’s tumultuous past will help the country confront its historical wrongs — and avoid repeating them.

#books-and-literature, #chen-yuan-tsung, #china, #content-type-personal-profile, #cultural-revolution, #east-asia, #elderly, #food-insecurity, #mao-zedong, #politics-and-government, #writing-and-writers, #xi-jinping, #zhou-enlai-1898-1976

The New York Times 10:00 am on January 13, 2023
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The Romance Novelist Who Faked Her Own Death

Now how’s that for a plot twist?

#amazon-com-inc, #book-trade-and-publishing, #books-and-literature, #death-and-dying, #goodreads-inc, #harpercollins-publishers, #hoover-colleen-1979, #labor-and-jobs, #mergers-acquisitions-and-divestitures, #miller-laura-author, #random-house, #rumors-and-misinformation, #simonschuster-inc, #wolf-naomi, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 10:00 am on January 13, 2023
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Book Review: ‘Forbidden Notebook,’ by Alba de Céspedes

A best-selling novelist and political activist in her native Italy, she was admired for her sensitive depictions of women and their predicaments. Recently rediscovered, her work has lost none of its subversive force.

#books-and-literature, #de-cespedes-alba-1911-97, #diaries, #forbidden-notebook-book, #goldstein-ann-1949, #italy, #world-war-ii-1939-45, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 3:28 pm on January 12, 2023
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Patrick Modiano Says Good Books Make Good People

“A book that profoundly moves or thrills you makes you a more sensitive person, and therefore a better one,” says the 2014 Nobel laureate, whose new book is “Scene of the Crime.” “That is its moral function.”

#books-and-literature, #content-type-personal-profile, #modiano-patrick, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 5:54 pm on January 8, 2023
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Russell Banks, Novelist Steeped in the Working Class, Dies at 82

He brought his own sometimes painful blue-collar experiences to bear in acclaimed stories exploring issues of race, class and power in American life.

#banks-russell, #books-and-literature, #cloudsplitter-book, #continental-drift-book, #deaths-obituaries, #pulitzer-prizes, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 10:00 am on January 8, 2023
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Book Review: ‘Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory’ by Janet Malcolm

The celebrated journalist’s brief final book, “Still Pictures,” may well be her most personal, assembling photographs and vignettes of her family, friends and childhood as an immigrant to America.

#books-and-literature, #content-type-personal-profile, #malcolm-janet, #photography, #still-pictures-on-photography-and-memory-book, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 4:15 pm on January 4, 2023
Tags: , , , The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (Book), Weldon, Fay, Writing and Writers   

Fay Weldon, British Novelist Who Challenged Feminist Orthodoxy, Dies at 91

By turns elusive and confessional in public, she used dark satire to explore the divides between men and women.

#books-and-literature, #deaths-obituaries, #great-britain, #the-life-and-loves-of-a-she-devil-book, #weldon-fay, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 5:00 pm on December 27, 2022
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A Literary Scene Where Parties Are Part of the Agenda

LittlePuss Press specializes in work by transgender writers. Its founders also know it’s hard to resist a great party.

#book-trade-and-publishing, #books-and-literature, #brooklyn-nyc, #littlepuss-press, #parties-social, #transgender-and-transsexuals, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 4:48 pm on December 21, 2022
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Jenna Bush Hager Is Making a List. Authors Are Obsessed With It.

She was born into a life in the public eye. Then she chose to go on morning TV.

#book-clubs, #books-and-literature, #bush-barbara, #bush-barbara-1981, #bush-george-w, #hager-jenna-bush, #internal-sub-only, #kotb-hoda, #television, #today-tv-program, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 8:15 pm on December 20, 2022
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Human This Christmas

ChatGPT can program a reader but only mimic a writer.

#artificial-intelligence, #computers-and-the-internet, #internal-sub-only-nl, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 9:38 pm on December 18, 2022
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Streaming’s Golden Age Is Suddenly Dimming

After years of breakneck growth, the number of scripted TV series orders made by networks and streamers is in decline.

#amazon-com-inc, #apple-tv, #hbo-max, #layoffs-and-job-reductions, #netflix-inc, #paramount-plus, #television, #video-recordings-downloads-and-streaming, #walt-disney-company, #warner-bros-discovery, #web-original-programming, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 12:12 am on December 17, 2022
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Elon Musk Flexes His Media Muscle by Suspending Reporters on Twitter

Elon Musk’s moves this week set off a heated debate about complex issues of free speech and online censorship.

#censorship, #computers-and-the-internet, #freedom-of-speech-and-expression, #freedom-of-the-press, #musk-elon, #news-and-news-media, #regulation-and-deregulation-of-industry, #social-media, #twitter, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 5:30 am on December 15, 2022
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From Behind Bars, Inmates Award France’s Latest Book Prize

For the first time, detainees picked their own winner in an offshoot of the Goncourt, France’s top literary honor.

#books-and-literature, #france, #goncourt-academy, #goncourt-prize, #orleans-france, #prisons-and-prisoners, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 8:00 am on December 11, 2022
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How the Spoken Word Shapes the Written Word

Whether it’s to themselves, their spouse or their dog, reading aloud is essential to the writing process for these Times reporters.

#new-york-times, #news-and-news-media, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 8:38 pm on December 8, 2022
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia on Magic Realism and Latin American Literature

Describing new Latin American literature as ‘magic realist’ prolongs a stereotype that overlooks the full depth and richness of each novel’s true genre.

#book-trade-and-publishing, #latin-america, #race-and-ethnicity, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 4:59 pm on December 5, 2022
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Astra Magazine Had Creative Freedom and a Budget. It Wasn’t Enough.

The literary journal attracted great names. Its issues sold well. And then it was over — a fate that offers insight into the tenuous place of literary magazines in the American publishing landscape.

#astra-publishing-house-inc, #book-trade-and-publishing, #books-and-literature, #magazines, #shutdowns-institutional, #spiegelman-nadja-1987, #united-states, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 10:00 am on November 30, 2022
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John le Carré’s Letters Show the Author at His Witty, Erudite and Pugilistic Best

“A Private Life,” a collection of correspondence spanning much of his life, offers a fresh look at his brilliance — and his contradictions

#a-private-spy-book, #books-and-literature, #great-britain, #le-carre-john, #letters, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 3:32 pm on November 29, 2022
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The 10 Best Books of 2022

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s standout fiction and nonfiction.

#an-immense-world-how-animal-senses-reveal-the-hidden-realms-around-us-book, #aviv-rachel, #bennett-claire-louise, #books-and-literature, #checkout-19-book, #demon-copperhead-book, #diaz-hernan, #egan-jennifer, #hsu-hua-author, #kingsolver-barbara, #otoole-fintan, #serpell-namwali, #stay-true-a-memoir-book, #strangers-to-ourselves-unsettled-minds-and-the-stories-that-make-us-book, #the-candy-house-book, #the-furrows-an-elegy-book, #trust-book, #under-the-skin-the-hidden-toll-of-racism-on-american-lives-and-on-the-health-of-our-nation-book, #villarosa-linda-1959, #we-dont-know-ourselves-a-personal-history-of-modern-ireland-book, #writing-and-writers, #yong-ed-1981

The New York Times 4:00 pm on November 25, 2022
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The Search for Beauty in a Prison Cell

Prison, particularly for Black Americans, gets reduced to simple caricatures of violence and suffering. Inside the confines of a jail cell, through a book, I discovered salvation.

#angelou-maya, #books-and-literature, #libraries-and-librarians, #louisiana, #poetry-and-poets, #prisons-and-prisoners, #randall-dudley, #rikers-island-prison-complex, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 8:32 pm on November 19, 2022
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‘Love and Rockets,’ a Series that Helped Redefine Comics, Turns 40

With its Chicana punk rockers and panels of untranslated Spanish, “Rockets” was unlike anything else — and, it turns out, just what the world of comics was craving.

#california, #comic-books-and-strips, #content-type-personal-profile, #fantagraphics-books, #genre-books-graphic-novels-comic-books, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 10:00 am on November 18, 2022
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Anton Filatov, Ukrainian Film Critic, Drafted Into Real-Life War

Anton Filatov was pulled into a theater he never expected or wanted to enter: the front lines of war, where he now writes movingly of the scene in the trenches instead of what’s on the screen.

#anton-filatov, #content-type-personal-profile, #defense-and-military-forces, #donbas-ukraine, #movies, #russian-invasion-of-ukraine-2022, #ukraine, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 3:03 am on November 18, 2022
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Michael J. Gerson, Presidential Speechwriter and Columnist, Dies at 58

He composed many of George W. Bush’s signature addresses, and later, as a writer for The Washington Post, took a stand against Donald J. Trump.

#bush-george-w, #deaths-obituaries, #gerson-michael, #news-and-news-media, #speeches-and-statements, #trump-donald-j, #united-states-politics-and-government, #washington-post, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 4:09 am on November 17, 2022
Tags: All My Rage (Book), , Keene, John R Jr (1965- ), , , , , , , , , Tahir, Sabaa, Writing and Writers   

2022 National Book Award Winners: Full List

Tess Gunty received the fiction prize for her debut, “The Rabbit Hutch.” Art Spiegelman, the author of “Maus,” received a lifetime achievement award.

#all-my-rage-book, #books-and-literature, #keene-john-r-jr-1965, #lakshmi-padma, #mcdowell-megan, #national-book-awards, #perry-imani, #poetry-and-poets, #schweblin-samanta, #seven-empty-houses-book, #south-to-america-a-journey-below-the-mason-dixon-to-understand-the-soul-of-a-nation-book, #tahir-sabaa, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 10:00 am on November 12, 2022
Tags: A Heart That Works (Book), , , Catastrophe (TV Program), , , , Delaney, Rob, , , Writing and Writers   

Rob Delaney Wants You to Know How He’s Feeling (It May Ruin Your Day)

In his memoir “A Heart That Works,” the comedian and actor grapples with the pain of losing a child, and how to keep living.

#a-heart-that-works-book, #actors-and-actresses, #books-and-literature, #catastrophe-tv-program, #children-and-childhood, #comedy-and-humor, #deaths-fatalities, #delaney-rob, #parenting, #television, #writing-and-writers