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- The Myth of a Golden Age of Books (2020-10-22)
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- Art Is Hard (2019-12-02)
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- A character who yearns (2019-07-15)
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- Neil Gaiman: Make Good Art (2019-05-26)
- Gatsby Unchained (2019-02-26)
- How Daniel Pink Writes (2019-01-12)
- “All good things must begin” (2018-03-27)
- John le Carré, 1965 (2018-02-07)
- Gay Talese on Writer’s Block (2018-02-05)
- The Silence (2018-01-23)
- “Limited” by Carl Sandburg (2017-10-21)
- After you finish (2017-09-27)
- Jonathan Haidt explains our contentious culture (2017-08-23)
- Leon Uris: Research feeds your writing (2017-08-09)
- Tweet of the Day (2017-06-29)
- Dorothy Parker, blocked (2017-06-08)
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- New York City, 1950 (2017-04-13)
- Procrastination is thinking (2017-03-31)
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- Shakespeare’s speech on immigrants (2017-02-28)
- Fitzgerald: “utter helplessness” (2017-01-02)
- Make it new (and not) (2016-12-16)
- Creating vs. analyzing ()
- The New Jim Crow (2016-12-08)
- Story machines (2016-11-23)
- Theories of procrastination (2016-10-31)
- The Efficient Plots Hypothesis (2016-09-20)
- Ian McEwan’s writing day (2016-09-13)
- On Voluptas (2016-09-01)
- Auden: “a genuine writer forgets” (2016-08-22)
- How Styron wrote (2016-08-19)
- “The Year of Lear” (2016-08-15)
- If it’s hard, why do it? (2016-07-29)
- Writing as meditation (2016-06-30)
- Quote of the day (2016-04-06)
- Horace: Artless art (2016-03-05)
- On procrastination, good and bad (2016-03-02)
- A better map of the world (2016-02-24)
- A natural style (2015-12-31)
- George Saunders on writing (2015-12-24)
- Arthur Conan Doyle on the origin of Sherlock Holmes (2015-09-17)
- The Virtue of Ignorance (2015-07-18)
- Postcard from the Back Bay (2015-07-11)
- Turning time into language (2015-05-13)
- Pixar’s story rules (2015-02-23)
- The procrastination muse (2015-02-03)
- Sunday poem (2015-02-01)
- Jimmy Rushing: Going to Chicago (2015-01-30)
- The tyranny of suspense (2015-01-28)
- Elizabeth Gilbert on success (2015-01-25)
- The Writer’s Anxiety (2015-01-15)
- Self-doubt (2015-01-07)
- How (and when and where) to write (2015-01-02)
- A thought for New Year’s Day (2015-01-01)
- Sam Harris: The self is an illusion ()
- DeLillo: who I write for (2014-11-23)
- Creative Process (2014-11-21)
- Reckless (2014-11-18)
- Poem of the day (2014-11-16)
- Hemingwrite (2014-11-14)
- Nina Darnton’s “The Perfect Mother” (2014-10-24)
- Calvino #1 (2014-10-13)
- Calvino #2 ()
- Calvino #3 ()
- An artist’s name (2014-10-10)
- Rainy Day (2014-10-08)
- After the flood ()
- All alike (2014-10-07)
- Photo of the Day (2014-10-06)
- Resisting the present (2014-09-28)
- Van Gogh Museum (2014-09-22)
- Twain on “show, don’t tell” (2014-09-12)
- The virtues of hackery (2014-09-10)
- The First Flight (2014-08-30)
- Moonshot thinking (2014-08-02)
- “Never do it the same way again” (2014-07-24)
- Oh, the places you’ll go (2014-07-04)
- Whose voice does the reader hear? (2014-07-02)
- Billy Budd manuscript (2014-06-29)
- Orwell (2014-06-25)
- Flickr Find of the Day (2014-06-05)
- South End, June 10: Last appearance for the summer (2014-06-02)
- Boston rapid transit map, 1954 ()
- The Artist in the Arena (2014-06-01)
- Gut churn (2014-05-28)
- Just keep making (2014-05-27)
- Nationality: without (2014-05-23)
- Ira Glass: The gap (2014-05-21)
- Up a tree (2014-05-20)
- Brian Eno: Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm ()
- George R.R. Martin’s “secret weapon” (2014-05-18)
- Emerson: Enthusiasm (2014-05-15)
- David Lynch on Where Ideas Come From (2014-05-09)
- Updike on his early stories (2014-03-31)
- How you comin’ on that novel? (2014-03-17)
- Craft (2014-03-05)
- Winter (2014-03-04)
- “The extension of our sympathies” (2014-02-28)
- Book lust (a continuing series) (2014-02-16)
- Angela Lee Duckworth on Grit (2014-02-14)
- Annie Lennox on Creativity (2014-02-09)
- The Value of Uncertainty (2014-02-05)
- Coming to Brookline (2014-01-29)
- Hemingway: “Make it alive” (2014-01-17)
- Quote of the Day (2014-01-01)
- Jeffrey Eugenides: Write Posthumously (2013-10-18)
- Louis C.K. on cell phones (2013-09-30)
- Trade paperback pub day (2013-09-03)
- Mary Karr: What you are doomed to write (2013-08-27)
- Stranded (2013-07-14)
- Library Way (2013-07-12)
- The Strangler unearthed (2013-07-11)
- Blocked (2013-06-24)
- Keats: “I was never afraid of failure” (2013-05-22)
- “It’s always difficult” (2013-05-09)
- “Each book should be a new beginning” ()
- Video of the Day (2013-05-07)
- Hemingway, 1945 (2013-05-06)
- Library in the Cloud (2013-04-19)
- Award season (2013-04-08)
- Creatures ()
- A Little Facelift (2013-03-28)
- Tweet of the Day (2013-03-15)
- 1984 recovered (2013-03-12)
- Writer-in-chief, cont’d (2013-03-07)
- Malcolm Gladwell: Late Bloomers ()
- Henry James: The Art of Fiction (2013-03-05)
- Quote of the Day (2013-03-04)
- Paperback Pub Day (2013-02-27)
- Miserable people (2013-02-25)
- John and Me, cont’d (2013-02-14)
- John and Me ()
- Relax! You’ll Be More Productive (2013-02-13)
- Boston, 1940 (2013-02-11)
- Tweet of the Day (2013-02-08)
- Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction (2013-02-06)
- Best Book Trailer Ever (2013-01-18)
- Three Questions (2013-01-10)
- How Writers Write: Roxana Robinson (2013-01-08)
- Valediction (2013-01-07)
- 2012 Wrap-up (2013-01-06)
- New York, 1950 (2013-01-01)
- Writing is frustration ()
- New York, 1944 (2012-12-31)
- Write posthumously ()
- Fan Ho ()
- Quote of the Day ()
- The desire to matter (2012-12-26)
- Orwell in torment (2012-12-13)
- Bonnie Prince Billy: I See a Darkness (2012-12-12)
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, happiness and flow ()
- Louis C.K. on Twitter (2012-12-11)
- Chief’s ring ()
- Steve Jobs on ideas vs. execution (2012-12-09)
- Steve ()
- Quote of the Day (2012-12-08)
- Obama offstage ()
- Conrad: The sitting is all (2012-11-16)
- Roth: Stop now (2012-11-14)
- Today’s paper (2012-11-07)
- Graying Obama ()
- Junot Diaz: You keep writing anyway (2012-11-05)
- Ian McEwan on the ideal length of a story ()
- After the storm (2012-11-04)
- Akcyza! (2012-10-31)
- On the subway (2012-10-26)
- Dispatch from Paris ()
- Three Lawyer-Writers (2012-10-11)
- Gay Talese (2012-10-05)
- Ray Bradbury: Story of a Writer (1963) (2012-10-02)
- William James: Habit ()
- Alison Krauss: Baby, Now That I’ve Found You (2012-09-28)
- Coney Island, 1952 ()
- Défendre Jacob, the book trailer ()
- Route 66, 1969 ()
- Emerson: Finish each day and be done with it (2012-09-22)
- Homer votes ()
- Demolition of Boston’s West End ()
- Zadie Smith’s Ten Rules for Writers (2012-09-21)
- Antietam, 1862 (2012-09-18)
- Tchaikovsky: Work without inspiration (2012-09-10)
- Happy 49th (2012-09-08)
- Jeffrey Eugenides: Not the audience, the reader (2012-09-07)
- Picturing Jacob ()
- Goodbye, summer (2012-09-04)
- Picasso: I am always doing what I cannot do (2012-08-29)
- Elmore Leonard on bad movies and good writing (2012-08-23)
- Quote of the Day (2012-08-21)
- Bookplates are back (2012-08-19)
- Lartigue again (2012-08-14)
- Lartigue (2012-07-28)
- Orwell: Good Bad Books (2012-07-25)
- Whale and Calf (2012-07-24)
- George Harrison: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2012-07-18)
- Good F***ing Design Advice (2012-07-02)
- Defending Jacob on the Today Show (2012-06-28)
- Aaron Sorkin: Now all I have to do… (2012-06-27)
- Inside Random House ()
- The backlist is back (2012-06-12)
- Bradbury: Action is hope (2012-06-07)
- Still lifes by Christopher Stott, cont’d (2012-06-02)
- Giamatti on baseball (2012-05-24)
- Fenway ’56 ()
- Ken Burns: On Story (2012-05-16)
- Into the Woods ()
- John Fox on ball games (2012-05-08)
- The original death of publishing (2012-05-05)
- New York, 1908 ()
- Graham Greene by Yousuf Karsh (2012-05-03)
- Ex Libris ()
- “There is only the trying” (2012-04-23)
- Imtiaz Dharker: Carving ()
- Marilyn (2012-04-19)
- In case you missed it (2012-04-18)
- Our golden age of reading (2012-04-12)
- This morning in the Public Garden (2012-04-03)
- In today’s Wall Street Journal (2012-04-02)
- The latest on Defending Jacob (2012-03-21)
- UK pub day (2012-03-15)
- Ad of the day (2012-03-14)
- Yale vs. Princeton, 1903 (2012-03-07)
- L.A.P.D Archives, 1955 ()
- London Tube campaign (2012-03-06)
- Quote of the Day (2012-03-05)
- “MCMXIV” by Philip Larkin ()
- Richard and Mildred Loving, 1965 (2012-02-21)
- Week in Review (2012-02-19)
- What a week (2012-02-09)
- D-day (2012-01-31)
- Do schools kill creativity? (2012-01-29)
- Review of the day ()
- Making Gatsby (2012-01-27)
- Climbing the charts (2012-01-25)
- Tweet of the Day (2012-01-24)
- Iconic images colorized (2012-01-18)
- A Big Week (2012-01-16)
- Advertising Jacob (2012-01-12)
- Missing the West End (2012-01-08)
- Copley Square, 1910 (2012-01-07)
- Video of the day ()
- Harlem, 1946 (2011-12-28)
- New York, 1946 (2011-12-27)
- Manhattan, 1959 ()
- “A fair-haired crew-cut lad” (2011-12-23)
- Another Star (2011-12-16)
- Tour Schedule (2011-12-15)
- Robert Longo: Untitled (Windows at Night) (2011-12-09)
- How to Start (2011-12-08)
- Rodin: The Old Courtesan (2011-12-07)
- Up the Amazon (2011-12-06)
- The Shape of Things to Come (2011-12-02)
- Just create to create (2011-12-01)
- The Holstee Manifesto (2011-11-30)
- Support your indie bookstore! ()
- Emily Dickinson was here ()
- N is for Neville (2011-11-29)
- A letter from Edward Gorey ()
- “I’ve been stumped here for a while” (2011-11-17)
- Italy, 1940 (2011-11-04)
- The road to ruin (2011-11-03)
- Cousy ()
- Sam and Dave: You Don’t Know Like I Know (1967) (2011-11-01)
- The Just World Hypothesis (2011-10-27)
- Jacob earns a star from PW (2011-10-24)
- Jacob’s English jacket ()
- Gehrig (2011-10-15)
- Q&A (2011-10-13)
- Quote for the Day (2011-10-11)
- Apple.com today (2011-10-06)
- Touch the Hem of His Garment ()
- Teddy Thompson: In My Arms (2011-10-05)
- Face of the Day ()
- Joyce (2011-09-30)
- Quarterbacks of the NFL, 1961 (2011-09-27)
- October baseball (2011-09-26)
- The novel-writing process in one chart (2011-09-12)
- Think Different, cont’d (2011-09-08)
- Ali for Apple ()
- Think Different, cont’d ()
- Steve Jobs introduces the “Think Different” campaign ()
- Grit (2011-09-07)
- Lamb House ()
- The Master ()
- Talking Heads: Life During Wartime (2011-08-30)
- San Francisco, 1906 (2011-08-29)
- Ted Williams, 1939 (2011-08-28)
- The origin of Roy Hobbs ()
- We built it for ourselves (2011-08-25)
- A blurb from Joseph Finder ()
- Uncovered (2011-08-23)
- Public Writer, Private Writer (2011-08-12)
- Quote of the Day (2011-08-05)
- Ford XL-500 (2011-08-03)
- Nook: So far, so good (2011-07-28)
- Amy Winehouse: “Teach Me Tonight” (2004) (2011-07-27)
- Quote of the Day (2011-07-21)
- Hemingway, 1916 ()
- Billy Preston and Ray Charles: Agent Double-O Soul (2011-07-19)
- The Whitey Bulger book I’d like to read (2011-07-18)
- Bill Russell, 1961 (2011-07-13)
- The lost Vermeer (2011-07-06)
- Every writer is a thief ()
- Whitey Bulger, age 23 ()
- Promoting Jacob (2011-07-01)
- Hemingway, 1923 (2011-06-29)
- The Death of Print (2011-06-28)
- Leonardo, procrastinator (2011-06-26)
- Southie reacts to the capture of Whitey Bulger (2011-06-24)
- NHL ’67 (2011-06-23)
- Making books is fun! (2011-06-22)
- Mencken on great artists and virtuous men (2011-06-21)
- How to Tie Your Shoes ()
- Front page (2011-06-17)
- Wings not included (2011-06-14)
- Think Quantity (2011-06-10)
- Paul Rand for Ford (2011-06-09)
- The minimalist’s business card ()
- Win an advance copy of “Defending Jacob” (2011-06-08)
- The creative cycle in a nutshell (2011-06-06)
- Wisdom (2011-06-03)
- “And then I saw her…” ()
- Orwell on Dickens (2011-06-02)
- Our golden age ()
- Moby reimagined ()
- Orange sunrise (2011-05-27)
- Harlan Ellison: Pay the Writer! ()
- Steichen at war ()
- 1938 Bugatti 57S Atlantic ()
- Continuous Partial Attention (2011-05-25)
- You are what you read ()
- Mark Twain on film (2011-05-24)
- New York, 1902 (2011-05-19)
- Phil Jackson, 1972 (2011-05-15)
- Robert Longo: Shark (2011-05-11)
- Golden Gate Bridge under construction ()
- Robert Campbell on Boston’s Human Scale (2011-05-10)
- Why are we attracted to crime stories? (2011-05-09)
- Pre-first edition (2011-05-05)
- Inactivity (2011-05-04)
- Orhan Pamuk: “A writer is…” ()
- The Ignorance of Voters ()
- Pessimism/optimism (2011-05-03)
- The Patron Saint of Writers ()
- Defending Jacob update (2011-04-30)
- Write because you feel like writing (2011-04-29)
- Writer’s Block (2011-04-28)
- Aqua Tower, Chicago (2011-04-26)
- Rilke: “The Man Watching” (2011-04-25)
- Three thoughts on starting a new novel (2011-04-24)
- Why working people vote Republican (2011-04-22)
- Any way but lightly (2011-04-21)
- Why do writers like working in coffee shops? (2011-04-20)
- Fenway Park, 1925 (2011-04-19)
- Quote of the Day ()
- Miller & Monroe, 1957 ()
- Sand Dunes, Oceano, California 1936 (2011-04-15)
- Prague, 1924 (2011-04-13)
- Quote of the Day (2011-04-11)
- Lartigue (2011-04-08)
- Steinbeck (2011-04-06)
- Boston, 1971 ()
- The end of the shy author? ()
- Fitzgerald’s briefcase (2011-04-05)
- Chuey House (2011-04-04)
- Baldessari: Tips for Artists Who Want to Sell (2011-03-31)
- New York, 1964 (2011-03-30)
- What information consumes ()
- Bird vs. Magic ()
- Photo of the Day (2011-03-29)
- What Creativity Means ()
- Quote of the Day (2011-03-28)
- Sunday poem: “Tonight I Can Write” by Pablo Neruda (2011-03-27)
- Jaws (2011-03-25)
- The price of coal ()
- Blurbathon (2011-03-24)
- Seth Godin: Ten Bestsellers (2011-03-22)
- How to Balance Work and Family ()
- Quote of the Day ()
- Pale Blue Dot (2011-03-21)
- Calvino: And then something happens ()
- The Five Commandments ()
- What good shall I do this day? (2011-03-15)
- Madison Square Garden, 1951 ()
- California, 1936 (2011-03-14)
- Not the fact, the feeling ()
- Put down that book (2011-03-11)
- Zelda ()
- Blurbing Jacob ()
- Building the Empire State Building (2011-03-10)
- Fitzgerald (2011-03-08)
- Jacob’s knife ()
- Reading vs. Writing (2011-03-07)
- “The Writer” by Richard Wilbur (2011-03-06)
- Margaret Atwood: Books are frozen voices (2011-03-05)
- After the forest fire (2011-03-04)
- Neil Gaiman: Web piracy is good publicity ()
- Good News, Bad News, Great News (2011-03-03)
- Steichen’s WWII photographers ()
- California, 1940 (2011-03-01)
- Pacific Ocean (2011-02-28)
- Rockefeller Center, New York (2011-02-21)
- Copyright Run Amok ()
- Auden: September 1939 (2011-02-18)
- Penn Station, ca. 1910 ()
- Quote of the Day (2011-02-17)
- Blue marble (2011-02-16)
- Daniel Pink: What Motivates Us ()
- Photo of the Day (2011-02-15)
- Photo of the Day (2011-02-14)
- Falls (2011-02-13)
- Oceanscape ()
- Photo of the Day (2011-02-12)
- Billie Holiday ()
- New York, 1958 (2011-02-11)
- David Mitchell: Plot and character ()
- Columbia Park, Philadelphia, 1901 ()
- Creating Billy Bathgate ()
- Photo of the Day ()
- Mannahatta, 1609 (2011-02-10)
- Great Moments in Publishing (2011-02-09)
- Babe Ruth, 1919 (2011-02-08)
- Kundera: Lightness of form ()
- “Madame Bovary” translated by Lydia Davis ()
- Back Bay, 1904 (2011-02-07)
- Polo Grounds, 1916 ()
- What to Write ()
- Book Cover of the Day (2011-02-05)
- JFK, 1960 ()
- 1937 All-Stars ()
- Hemingway in Paris, 1923 (2011-02-04)
- A painter’s card (2011-02-03)
- Quote of the Day (2011-01-31)
- Laziness will not do (2011-01-30)
- Zeppelin, 1924 (2011-01-28)
- Empire State Building, opening day, 1931 (2011-01-26)
- The embodiment of raw experience ()
- Photo of the Day ()
- Salinger, 1952 (2011-01-25)
- Late Traveler (2011-01-24)
- New York, 1932 ()
- Montgomery, Alabama, 1958 (2011-01-23)
- Making Eddie Coyle ()
- Don’t Do It For Anyone Else ()
- Shanghai 1990 vs. Shanghai 2010 (2011-01-20)
- Record Club: Need You Tonight ()
- Wanda Jackson: Thunder on the Mountain (2011-01-18)
- How To Become a Writer ()
- Flaubert at Work (2011-01-16)
- Malamud: “work in uncertainty” (2011-01-13)
- The Duke’s Men: Either Way (2011-01-11)
- Enjoy the process of creation (2011-01-10)
- Fast Fish and Loose Fish ()
- How to give a TED talk (2011-01-08)
- Photo of the Day ()
- Face of the Day ()
- Penn Station, 1962 ()
- Moby (2011-01-07)
- Quote of the Day (2011-01-05)
- Galbraith on modern conservatism ()
- Fuck you, Melville! (2011-01-04)
- The Bermuda Triangle of Productivity (2011-01-03)
- In Between Days (2010-12-31)
- Quote of the Day ()
- Nosing around in nonsense (2010-12-30)
- Why read? (2010-12-27)
- Fitzgerald: What people are ashamed of (2010-12-23)
- Classic icon prints ()
- Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin ()
- Photo of the Day (2010-12-21)
- Photo of the Day #2 ()
- Ty Cobb, ca. 1915 (2010-12-17)
- Cologne, 1945 cont’d ()
- Cologne, 1945 ()
- Bricklayer’s Mate ()
- Salman Rushdie: writing out of “your best self” (2010-12-16)
- Dub FX: Soothe Your Pain (2010-12-14)
- Nabokov’s cards ()
- Tweeting to no one (2010-12-08)
- Darwinian Theories of Beauty (2010-12-06)
- Garrison Keillor: Advice to writers (2010-11-30)
- 11.22.63 (2010-11-29)
- Quote of the Day (2010-11-28)
- Boston, February 1944 (2010-11-24)
- Shoes (2010-11-18)
- Kanye West: Power (2010-11-17)
- Eddie Coyle comes to the stage, almost (2010-11-16)
- A kiss in the dark (2010-11-11)
- Fly (2010-11-10)
- “Best Society” by Philip Larkin ()
- Zadie Smith on Facebook (2010-11-08)
- Still lifes by Christopher Stott (2010-11-05)
- No such thing as a bad review (2010-11-03)
- Voices in Our Heads (2010-11-02)
- George Orwell Writes a Novel (2010-11-01)
- Five Fingers of Death (2010-10-31)
- Updike: Words that enter in silence and intimacy (2010-10-27)
- Chuck Close: Inspiration is for amateurs (2010-10-25)
- Happy St. Crispin’s Day ()
- Off to NYC (2010-10-19)
- What are books good for? (2010-10-17)
- The contract with the reader (2010-10-16)
- Clem Snide covers Journey (2010-10-15)
- Hemingway: No rule on how to write ()
- The true size of Africa ()
- How Writers Write: Margaret Atwood ()
- Philip Roth interviewed on “Fresh Air” ()
- Orwell: Why I Write (2010-10-14)
- Roth: “The ordeal is part of the commitment” ()
- Arlo Guthrie: Songs are like fish ()
- “Next” (2010-10-13)
- Olivia Fox: “fail successfully” (2010-10-12)
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle … Live (2010-10-11)
- The Cure for Procrastination (2010-10-08)
- Drawing Circles (2010-10-05)
- James Surowiecki: Later (2010-10-04)
- San Francisco, 1906 (2010-10-03)
- The origin of “I coulda been a contender” (2010-10-02)
- Diego Velázquez: Las Meninas (2010-10-01)
- Bellow on Inspiration (2010-09-29)
- Giotto’s Red Circle (2010-09-27)
- For Writers (2010-09-24)
- What “finished” means to a writer (2010-09-23)
- Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from (2010-09-21)
- Churchill: On risk (2010-09-19)
- Quote of the Day ()
- The Wages of Worry ()
- What makes Emma Bovary so interesting? (2010-09-18)
- Photo of the Day ()
- “Strawberries” by Edwin Morgan (2010-09-17)
- Orwell of the Tribune ()
- Katherine Anne Porter: This thing between me and my writing ()
- It’s All Been Done (2010-09-16)
- The scope-severity paradox (2010-09-14)
- Oliver Sacks on Mythmaking (2010-09-11)
- John Cleese on creativity (2010-09-08)
- Sontag: Uncertainties and anxieties (2010-09-07)
- What “free” means on the web ()
- Auden: Murder is unique (2010-09-06)
- Virginia Woolf: By hook or by crook (2010-09-04)
- Tumblng (2010-09-02)
- The High-Low Problem (2010-09-01)
- Experimental Writers vs. Conceptual Writers (2010-08-30)
- Flannery O’Connor: The novel is way to have experience (2010-08-29)
- Quote of the Day (2010-08-26)
- Hemingway’s standing desk (2010-08-23)
- Plan B: “She Said” ()
- “Perfection Wasted” by John Updike ()
- Why the novel will survive the disappearance of the book (2010-08-22)
- Book lust (2010-08-20)
- Updike’s reader (2010-08-18)
- Hanging Up (2010-08-16)
- Rooting for the laundry, 109 A.D. (2010-08-13)
- Vita Brevis, Ars Brevior (2010-08-10)
- Richard Ford: “make something good” (2010-08-07)
- FontFonter ()
- Hemingway, 1918 (2010-08-06)
- Innovation and Risk ()
- DeLillo: “The writer leads” (2010-08-04)
- A note from Barack Obama ()
- The Sawyer Effect (2010-08-02)
- A Writer on Monday Morning (2010-07-29)
- Gorgeous Borges (2010-07-26)
- Fitzgerald on creating characters (2010-07-19)
- Starting Over (2010-07-16)
- How James Bond Got His Name (2010-07-13)
- Henry James, age 57 (2010-07-11)
- Losing LeBron (2010-07-09)
- Flaubert on Life and Work ()
- Circadian Novels (2010-07-07)
- R.I.P. Inkwell Bookstore (2010-07-06)
- Man Out of Time: “The Disenchanted” by Budd Schulberg (2010-06-30)
- West End Memories (continued) (2010-06-28)
- A Face Behind the Page (2010-06-16)
- West End Memories ()
- The MFA Generation (2010-06-14)
- Browning: “a few I value more” (2010-06-10)
- You never completely relax again (2010-06-08)
- Writers Unplugged (2010-06-05)
- Inventing Laurie Barber (2010-06-04)
- The Way We Virtually Live Now (2010-06-02)
- A Hangman’s Metaphysics ()
- The Pleasures of Imagination (2010-06-01)
- “Matterhorn” (2010-05-31)
- Bloggiversary (2010-05-23)
- Writing Like It’s 1999 (2010-05-21)
- The Murder Gene (2010-05-11)
- The Mystery Writer’s Dilemma (2010-05-10)
- “I have lived alone in the woods” (2010-05-08)
- A Male Jodi Picoult (2010-05-06)
- New Money (2010-05-05)
- The Price of Procrastination (2010-04-28)
- Not-So-Random House ()
- Sven Birkerts: “the Internet and the novel are opposites” (2010-04-27)
- Portrait: Philip Roth (2010-04-26)
- Novels like letters (2010-04-25)
- How Writers Write: Ian McEwan (2010-04-19)
- Tweet of the Day (2010-04-17)
- Only Disconnect (2010-04-15)
- Flickr Find of the Day (2010-04-14)
- Writing Is Play (2010-04-13)
- Nexted ()
- The Burry Principle ()
- Is an ebook still a book? (2010-04-11)
- Can a writer quit? (2010-04-09)
- Will e-novels be shorter? (2010-04-06)
- Dr. Johnson: Libraries and “the vanity of human hopes” (2010-03-31)
- The Writer-in-Chief (2010-03-30)
- Dickens’ Outlines (2010-03-29)
- An Interview (2010-03-25)
- “Wolf Hall” (2010-03-23)
- Baseball’s Yankee Problem (2010-03-18)
- The issue is inequality, not total wealth (2010-03-14)
- Hilary Mantel: “locked in competition with myself” (2010-03-13)
- A Facelift (2010-03-12)
- Done! (2010-03-09)
- Life Magazine Photos of Boston’s Strangler Days (2010-03-08)
- Explaining Insomnia (2010-03-02)
- Google’s Buzzbomb (2010-03-01)
- How to design a book advertisement (2010-02-27)
- There is no sleeping at the Boston Public Library (2010-02-26)
- Bill Gates on Energy (2010-02-25)
- Photographs of the Combat Zone (2010-02-24)
- The Tweeted Wisdom of Alain de Botton (2010-02-19)
- Henry Miller’s Eleven Commandments (2010-02-17)
- A Lesson from Dickens (2010-02-12)
- The Perils of Advertising (2010-02-11)
- Last Words (2010-02-09)
- Stock and Flow (2010-02-05)
- The Street Photography of Jules Aarons (2010-02-02)
- The Anxiety of Finishing (2010-01-31)
- The Importance of Shipping (2010-01-28)
- “Little Dorrit”: Dickens’ Teeming World (2010-01-26)
- Adrienne Rich: “Prospective Immigrants Please Note” (2010-01-23)
- The Value of Failing (2010-01-18)
- Dickens and the Blacking Factory (2010-01-04)
- Rest and Re-creation ()
- Dickens and Me (2009-12-31)
- A friendly reviewer, at last (2009-12-28)
- Drawing Moby-Dick (2009-12-26)
- How Writers Write: Edwidge Danticat (2009-12-22)
- The View from Below: A midlist author watches the ebook wars (2009-12-20)
- Dickens vs. the Snarks (2009-12-16)
- Publishing Agonistes ()
- John Irving: “A need to be alone” ()
- Maugham: “great suspicion of posterity” (2009-12-09)
- “Tamburlaine Must Die” (2009-12-04)
- Lukewarm Kindling (2009-12-01)
- Put down your Kindle and watch this ()
- As if they had been around all along (2009-11-29)
- Title Trouble (2009-11-25)
- “This Is Where I Leave You” (2009-11-20)
- Cormac McCarthy: “My Perfect Day” (2009-11-15)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Swimming under water” (2009-11-10)
- Ted Kooser: “Daddy Longlegs” (2009-11-09)
- Book 3 Update: The Final Push (2009-11-05)
- Walt Whitman for Levi’s (2009-11-03)
- Financial Lives of the Poets (2009-10-30)
- “Immersive text-only experiences” ()
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is … Pippi Longstocking? (2009-10-29)
- Philip Roth on the novel’s “cultic” future (2009-10-28)
- Michael Penn’s photographs of Philadelphia ()
- A Favorite Review (2009-10-22)
- Scrapbook (2009-10-21)
- A “Strangler” Word Cloud ()
- This is your brain on e-books (2009-10-19)
- “City of Thieves” (2009-10-16)
- How to Make a Movie About a Writer (2009-10-15)
- Angiulo, Barboza and fictionalizing the Boston Mob (2009-10-14)
- Vermeer (2009-10-04)
- Eavan Boland: “Quarantine” (2009-09-27)
- Barbara Mensch’s photographs of Fulton Fish Market (2009-09-24)
- A cabin made of hours (2009-09-21)
- Biocriminology (2009-09-18)
- A Thousand Words a Day (2009-09-17)
- Throwaway novels (2009-09-13)
- Writer’s Room: W. Somerset Maugham (2009-09-11)
- Writer’s Room: Cory Doctorow (2009-09-10)
- How Writers Write: J.G. Ballard ()
- Inside “The Strangler”: The New Boston, 1963 (2009-09-08)
- William Manchester’s struggle ()
- A few links (2009-09-02)
- George Herbert: “Church Monuments” (2009-09-01)
- Henry Ford: “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted” ()
- Edmund Wilson Regrets ()
- Julia Child: “The way to a full and healthy life” (2009-08-31)
- Boston’s Wonderful/Terrible City Hall ()
- Philip Roth: “the desire to get the work right” (2009-08-28)
- Ten Views of the Combat Zone (2009-08-27)
- Wallace Stevens: “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm” (2009-08-26)
- Why authors should (and shouldn’t) blog (2009-08-21)
- Philip Larkin: “This Is the First Thing” (2009-08-20)
- Book Three Update (2009-08-19)
- Barbara Mensch’s photographs of New York ()
- “No battle plan…” (2009-08-18)
- Lawrence Lessig on the Google book search settlement (2009-08-14)
- Remembering Updike the Father (2009-08-10)
- Crime novels and entertainments (2009-08-08)
- Kate’s Mystery Books closes (for now) (2009-08-02)
- Makers vs. Managers (2009-08-01)
- “Free” and the Future of Publishing (2009-07-27)
- Walter Cronkite and “The Strangler” (2009-07-20)
- The Definitive Boston Crime Novel: “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” (2009-07-17)
- Best Boston Movie Ever: “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” (2009-07-16)
- E-Books and Distracted Reading (2009-07-14)
- Why the Strangler? (2009-07-10)
- How Writers Write: Graham Greene (2009-07-08)
- Capote and Ellison: Blocked or just procrastinating? (2009-07-01)
- On Moving to a New Publisher in the UK (2009-06-29)
- Fred Wilson on Social Media ()
- How Writers Write: Philip Roth (2009-06-27)
- Publishers as booksellers? (2009-06-24)
- Richard Diebenkorn: Notes to Myself on Beginning a Painting (2009-06-23)
- Writers as Performers (2009-06-22)
- Oprah’s Mystery Reading List (2009-06-17)
- The Science of Home-Field Advantage (2009-06-15)
- Kickstarter ()
- The Breakthrough, at last (2009-06-13)
- The economics of dealing crack (2009-06-12)
- Creating Writers: Do MFA Programs Produce Dull Writers? (2009-06-11)
- “The Lazarus Project” by Aleksandar Hemon (2009-06-09)
- “The Commitments” (2009-06-06)
- I Miss U: Updike Is Gone (2009-06-04)
- Things I Love: The AlphaSmart Neo (2009-05-29)
- Writing in the Age of Distraction (2009-05-27)
- When Every Writer Is a Publisher (2009-05-26)
- Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow: Why Writers Get Stuck ()
- A Quote for the Holiday Weekend (2009-05-22)
- The Way We Write Now: Novelists and Their Blogs ()
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