Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize
November 04, 2016
Agent of God, Bob Dylan, David Remick, Don DeLillo, Joyce Carol Oates. The Nobel Prize for Literature, keepers of the cannon, Philip Roth0 Comment
Some of my short stories look traditional but aren’t. When they veer too far from the recognized format, I suffer multiple rejections and irrelevant advice on how to make the story better. “Agent of God,” is an example. I floated that story around the internet for a coup
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August 04, 2015
can a writer really retire?, Harper Lee, Henry James, is writing a job or an insanity?, J. C. Halliman, Philip Roth, The Monk Retires, To Kill a Mockingbird
J. C. Halliman cocks a doubtful eyebrow at novelist Philip Roth’s announcement he has retired from writing. (“The Monk Retires,” The Baffler, Vol. 27, pgs. 184-189.) If so, the essayist wonders, why do we keep seeing him on television or as a speaker at literary events. From t
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