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http://www.his.com/~z/gibbon.html "Another damned, thick, square, book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon?" (William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, upon receiving the second volume from the author, 1781)

Well written! Enjoyable read! Thanks! I am reminded of a great event in oriental antiquity: A student once asked his Zen master, "Is my sock half empty or half full?" The Zen master asked, "Do your socks smell?" The student replied, "Yes" The Zen master said, "Then go wash your...

This is one of the best things I have come across in a while. http://mondodomani.org/dialegesthai/asi01.htm I note with interest that this splendid Greek scholarship is the work of someone who appears, from his name, Singh, and his photo, to be of Indian Sikh ancestry.

I just stumbled across this interesting link while surfing in google http://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/theory-novel/index.htm Excerpt: Art becomes problematic precisely because reality has become non-problematic. The idea put forward in The Theory of the Novel, although...

Here is an interesting page on Wouk's biography http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/cainemutiny/context.html Excerpts: Wouk's education began at Townsend Harris High School, an elite program for students with high IQs. The two most influential men that Wouk encountered in his schoolings...

Forty-four years ago, at the age of 13, cooped up with an illness and bored, I read the Reader's Digest condensed Youngblood Hawke. The most exciting passage for me was a sex scene which would be considered quite tame by today's standards. My late mother's name was Marjorie. Growing up, I...

I am often haunting the links at the official Annie Proulx site http://www.annieproulx.com They claim that their forum is "down" for a few months, for purposes of renovation, improvement. I do hope it will return. With the forum down, I was inspired to dig more deeply into the articles at...

Stephen King's book, On Writing is a lighter read than Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel or Umberto Eco's On Literature, but still it is worthwhile and entertaining (perhaps far more light-hearted and entertaining than the other two books mentioned). Here is a good tip, from page 114 of...

http://www.susanisaacs.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=86& Susan Isaacs writes: Back in the late 80s, when I was in what was then the USSR, things were changing. It was after glasnost, I believe, but before perestroika. We had an Intourist guide, a lovely woman who was a doctoral candidate in...

http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/pg/mamodlit.html University of Leicester Some Recent Dissertation Topics * The Broken Poet: Destructive Forces in the Life and Work of Hart Crane * Ted Hughes’s Crow: A Modern European Myth * Sister Sister: The extents to which gynobonding is...

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2005/01/31/index.html Stewart O'Nan, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1961). He's the author of many novels, including Snow Angels (1994), A Prayer for the Dying (1999) and The Night Country (2003). He's known for writing about unsympathetic...

Just how scholarly can one be with Stephen King? He dedicates his book on writing, in part to Amy Tang, who gave him encouragement. http://www.authorsontheweb.com/features/authormonth/0102tan/tan.asp Along with novelist Stephen King and columnist Dave Barry, Tan is a member of the...

from AN INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN KING ON CHRISTINE http://www.perfectworldusa.com/christine.htm Lofficier: Do you consciously try to put something a little more subliminal into your work? King: No, never subliminal. I think it should be out there where anybody can see it. I don't believe...

In America only the successful writer is important. In France, all writers are important. In England no writer is important. In Australia you have to explain what a writer is. - Geoffrey Cotterell (from Jon Winokur's collection) P.S. - My apologies to France, but I found this...

I have just purchased a copy of King's book on writing. I have dutifully used the search engine to locate this thread and avoid redundancy. I would like to post some observations here as I read. I also picked up a book compiled by Jon Winokur entitled Writers on Writing (published by...

Criticisms of Proulx' article http://www.cinematical.com/2006/03/11/annie-proulx-to-academy-its-on/#comments

I made a considerable effort to master chess some years ago, but failed miserably. I learned to play a game, and even succeeded in beating a few levels of a simple electronic chess program. But I could not absorb and retain the books I had purchased on various openings, middle games, end games...

Annie Proulx's Reactions to Oscar Awards http://film.guardian.co.uk/oscars2006/story/0,,1727312,00.html I just found this link mentioned at http://www.annieproulx.com the official site run by her son, Morgan Lang. Sorry if this has been mentioned here already. It is a worthwhile read.

Gramatical Nightmare - 4 The attitude of holding coronation to foe is a way of treachery I have no idea in the world what this could possibly mean! Coronation is a ceremony held to crown a king or queen, or perhaps a pope. An attitude may be a mental disposition or it may be a posture...

Linguists such as Chomsky and Otto Jesperson speak of the deep meaning underlying any sentence in any language. There are certain thoughts common to all peoples of all places and all ages, such as, "I am thirsty" or "I am hungry" or "I am no longer hungry but satisfied, or full". In modern...