Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert writes luminous and lucid articles and books about topics the rest of us dismiss as being too hard. She brings stories to life about science and climate change. Much awarded and lauded for her work, Kolbert is interviewed here by Creative Nonfiction Magazine. In the movie Bang the Drum Slowly, there’s a card…
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Excellent review of a new biography about Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, here at the New York Review of Books. The review lucidly explains some of Amazon’s troubling corporate practices, and Amazon’s impact on the publishing industry. He is not an easy man to caricature. In Stone’s portrait, he is nerdy, dreamy, prescient, and…
Updike – a review of a review
I read so many book reviews that I often feel far more well-read than I actually am. “Oh yes,” I say, affecting an air knowledgeable nonchalance when asked about a certain book. “I know it. It received great reviews.” Chances are I’ll never get around to reading it, though. And does that matter? A good…
Write like a Mother#^@%*&
Less an article and more of a wandering conversation between an emerging writer and an established one, this piece from Creative Non-Fiction provides some important messages. “Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it…