Call for a nouveau nouveau
Andrew Gallix offers the ideas of Alain Robbe-Grillet, whose nouveau roman inspired Muriel Spark, among others, as a rejoinder to David Shields’ (reductive) Reality Hunger.
Andrew Gallix offers the ideas of Alain Robbe-Grillet, whose nouveau roman inspired Muriel Spark, among others, as a rejoinder to David Shields’ (reductive) Reality Hunger.
CJR’s Michael Shapiro contends that the “modern age of Journalism as Literature” began in 1957 with the publication of Cornelius Ryan’s D-Day retelling, The Longest Day. (Via & via.)
Twitter maps U.S. language use, traces colloquialisms and slang to different geographical regions.
I’ll be introducing Marie Mockett when she reads this Friday, May 21, along with the young writers of Girls Write Now, as part of our Chapters series at the Center for Fiction. Her novel, Picking Bones From Ash, was recently shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize and is concerned with the unique power and difficulties of talented girls. “There must . . .
Is it possible to appreciate American literature fully if you don’t know the King James Bible? Adam Kirsch considers Robert Alter’s Pen of Iron.