Steve Alten is waiting for some big news. In Alten’s case, “big” involves a seventy-six-foot-long man-eater that lives in the world’s deepest oceans and has been trying, for twelve years, to rise […]
“Take a walk with me,” I said. My students, some twenty-one freshmen, followed me into the hallway. “We’re going to take a walk around the building,” I told them. “I want you […]
If you’ve been off-planet for the last few months you may have missed the news: Jon & Kate have split, and in the process migrated from the relative banality of the TV […]
Here’s something to mark Valentine’s Day. The late, great John Updike was asked in Esquire some years ago: How does one write a love poem? His response (no link available): The first […]
“To my wife, who read all the drafts of my book. I am the lucky beneficiary of not only her wise editorial comments, but her loving encouragement.” “To my husband, whose generosity […]
Writers who shaped the consciousnesses, and influenced the styles, of Scholars and Rogues. Wendy Redal Hermann Hesse, especially for Narcissus & Goldmund: His study of the tension between reason and emotion as […]
Writers who shaped the consciousnesses, and influenced the styles, of Scholars and Rogues. Denny Wilkins I wrote and edited news and commentary for a living for 20 years. I, as they say, […]
Writers who shaped the consciousnesses, and influenced the styles, of Scholars and Rogues. J.S. O’Brien The most influential writer and book of my life didn’t influence my writing style one bit (thank […]
Writers who shaped the consciousnesses, and influenced the styles, of Scholars and Rogues. Lex As a reader of mostly non-fiction, with its division by subject rather than author, this is kind of […]
Writers who shaped the consciousnesses, and influenced the styles, of Scholars and Rogues. Jim Booth F. Scott Fitzgerald for his prose style — Ernest Hemingway for his prose style — Thomas Wolfe […]
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