Literary-Writing News
Technology may eliminate most of the newspapers for this guy to read
I suppose in a world where high-tech UGG boots have pretty much replaced the craftsmanship of hand-made footwear, and now various hand-held electronic gadgets are threatening to replace (HA!) real books — I suppose in that world it’s just a matter of time until there are very few real newspapers left for a guy to read.Read more on Technology may eliminate most of the newspapers for this guy to read…
Mailer’s death diminishes American writing and ‘letters’
Norman Mailer died yesterday, one of the first truly “modern” American novelists and a pioneer in “protest journalism” whose work stands as an important legacy.Although Mailer’s chief aspiration was to write the fabled “Great American Novel” that would tower over all other American novels, his work about a Vietnam war protest, “The Armies of the Night,” which won him a Pulitzer, has been credited with launching the genre of “the new journalism” — investigative reporting written with “novelistic” passion.
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