Tag: books
member name: Jack E.
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March 05, 2008 12:03 PM EST --
When does fact trespass into fiction? I don't know. I can't vouch for every word in a memoir I wrote several years ago.
In "Escape From Mount Moriah," 18 sketches of what it means . . .
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March 07, 2008 01:15 PM EST --
Michiko Kakutani hated it, Jonathan Lethem loved it, and both read the same book and reviewed it days apart in the New York Times. How often does this happen? Almost every time. The critics, our culture . . .
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February 26, 2008 11:14 PM EST --
There's a reason why J.D. Salinger went into hiding. It's a jungle out there when writers have to go forward and meet the public. Writing is something we love to do, selling is something we have . . .
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March 04, 2008 07:02 PM EST --
The Bathsheba Deadline: An Original Novel Review of Jack Engelhard's THE BATHSHEBA DEADLINE (Paperback)
By Cinnamon Stillwell - online columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle . . .
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March 18, 2008 05:05 PM EDT --
Crossroads: 1969 (N/A) John W. Cassell traveled to Europe in search of America and to understand this it helps to be a Child of the 60s -though in a sense we are all Children of the . . .
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March 20, 2008 02:59 PM EDT --
That Mother Teresa suffered a "crisis of faith" came as no surprise to me. People who attain high levels of spirituality are most vulnerable to such attacks.
It is a paradox. Yet I don't . . .
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April 09, 2008 03:33 PM EDT --
The best part of writing is the writing itself. After that comes the publishing and if the writer survives that, here come the reviews.
Book reviews are supposed to be about the book, not the author, . . .
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June 10, 2008 11:45 AM EDT --
Big Brown never had a chance in the Belmont -- and another Triple Crown contender bites the dust.
Kent Desormeaux, his jockey, gave him the worst ride in a big race since 1957, when Bill Shoemaker . . .
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November 09, 2008 04:40 PM EST --
The Days of the Bitter End Count me in on this honeymoon. I'm thrilled that what we have before us is our first African-American president. The politicking is done. I've had . . .
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February 24, 2008 07:26 PM EST --
I've always disagreed with Hemingway on his notion that newspaper reporting "blunts the instrument" for writing good and true fiction.
My favorite novels open with a bang, like the first . . .
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March 24, 2008 09:37 AM EDT --
The New York Times recently ran a commentary on its Paper Cuts blog asking readers to name the most overrated books of all time and though the questionnaire was open to anyone who can read and write and . . .
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April 03, 2008 10:17 AM EDT --
Readers at the New York Times have already spoken about the most overrated books of all time and the winners (or rather, the losers) are J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" and God's . . .
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April 29, 2008 03:21 PM EDT --
Is there a Babe Ruth among writers, and if so, why isn't he - or she - in Cooperstown? That's because we have nothing like that; no Hall of Fame.
Why not? Let me, then, throw out the first . . .
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August 20, 2008 02:54 PM EDT --
As I get it, people are being tossed from their homes because of some mortgage, or bank foul-up. The original homeowners are now living in tents.
Now these houses are up for auction and you, dear neighbor, . . .
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September 03, 2008 08:11 PM EDT --
What's this?
Indecent Proposal Just for the heck of it I decided to check out how my most famous novel is doing among top booksellers and found that there are a slew of books . . .
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December 17, 2008 12:54 PM EST --
Caroline Kennedy never grew up, not for me. She will always be that beautiful child who, carefree and happy, went romping around the While House along with her brother John John back when her father was . . .
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December 22, 2008 12:20 PM EST --
People are actually talking about the end of books as we knew them and loved them and though I am in this business, as a novelist, I am no expert on the publishing side, so maybe I don't know what . . .
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November 14, 2009 11:07 PM EST --
By Jack Engelhard
I have never read a book this awful – ever!
Philip Roth’s latest novel, “The Humbling,” is a about an aging actor who finds that he’s . . .
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July 01, 2008 07:07 PM EDT --
Hemingway told Bernard Berenson: "Having books published is very destructive to writing."
Salinger put it like this to me and to all writers (of fiction): "There is a marvelous peace . . .
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November 20, 2008 02:11 PM EST --
During his interview on "60 Minutes" president-elect Barack Obama mentioned a book that he'd been reading on FDR's first 100 Days. He did not name the book, tantalizing publishers that . . .
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