Writers congregated at NYPL for Liu Xiaobo protest
Don DeLillo, A.M. Homes, Edward Albee, E.L. Doctorow, and other PEN members held a New Year’s Eve rally to call for release of Liu Xiaobo.
Don DeLillo, A.M. Homes, Edward Albee, E.L. Doctorow, and other PEN members held a New Year’s Eve rally to call for release of Liu Xiaobo.
Happy New Year from frigid (but no longer snowy) Brooklyn. Wishing you all good things in 2010.
It has not always been so, but few aspects of online aspiring-writer culture are more irritating to me than “literary lifestyle” tips and paraphernalia. (Library-scented perfume. Dictionary wallpaper. Moleskines. Bookshelves fashioned of reference books pulled from library dumpsters. The onslaught is maddening.) But every curmudgeon is at least something of a hypocrite, and I am no exception. I visit writers’ . . .
Louisa May Alcott wrote what she called “moral pap for the young” for the money. She also published edgy pulp, and Civil War hospital dispatches.