Tag: fiction readers
member name: Jack E.
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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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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 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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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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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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April 02, 2009 07:52 PM EDT --
Don't know about you but as for me, I always catch my typos when it's too late, like when I've already sent something out, or even after I've had it published -- all that even after I've . . .
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April 23, 2008 06:15 PM EDT --
Dark Diamond Twilight: A True Story Flaubert may have done it successfully in "Madame Bovary" but outside of that it's nearly impossible to find any male writer who can . . .
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November 19, 2009 11:12 PM EST --
By John W. Cassell
My copy of Jack Engelhard's SLOT ATTENDANT:A NOVEL ABOUT A NOVELIST came this afternoon. As I was reading another truly engrossing novel at the time and NEVER read more . . .
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October 06, 2008 06:38 PM EDT --
I'm tired of it; aren't you? I mean EVERYTHING! They're all crooks, in it not for us, but for themselves.
Anyway, that's not why I called this here meetin'. Just finished polishing . . .
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February 23, 2009 11:55 AM EST --
F. Scott Fitzgerald's last royalty check came to around $4.85. In the beginning (with the publication of "This Side of Paradise") he was America's literary darling. In the end, practically . . .
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June 07, 2009 04:39 PM EDT --
Indecent Proposal
By Jack Engelhard
Someone has come along with a "sequel" to JD Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye." Salinger is suing to stop publication . . .
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June 10, 2009 01:12 PM EDT --
Salinger can't hear? That's hard to take.
Reports are coming in that JD Salinger "is now totally deaf." That's a quote being attributed to his agent, whose job it is to enforce his privacy. . . .
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May 05, 2009 01:50 PM EDT --
The Girls of Cincinnati Sometimes it pays to get out of bed in the morning. THIS morning, there it was, Amazon's "Look Inside This Book" feature for "The Girls . . .
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June 21, 2009 08:38 PM EDT --
The trick is to get yourself a good publicist, a publicist, as I was once told, who would kill for you. Well, that's going too far, don't you think? I haven't had a publicist since that one time back . . .
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December 05, 2008 12:38 PM EST --
[Intro from Jack Engelhard: We've all endured this frustration about a book we're trying to write - but it just refuses to happen. I met Orit online. I ran into one of her pieces at israelinsider.com . . .
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April 05, 2009 10:38 AM EDT --
Jack Engelhard's new novel, The Girls of Cincinnati , is now available exclusively on Amazon. This love-story/thriller was published by an Amazon subsidiary.
What's It About? . . .
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April 12, 2009 03:22 PM EDT --
My latest paperback novel, "The Girls of Cincinnati," is a work of fiction. It's about a hot love affair that gets interrupted when a third party intrudes with the intent of doing damage. . . .
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