Great Writers, Great Thinkers

Salman Rushdie interview, WNYC Radio, Oct. 2008
Madeleine L’Engle obituary, NY Times, Sept. 2007
Madeleine L’Engle interview, St. Anthony Messenger, June 2000
Wallace Stegner centennial, NY Times, Jan. 2009
Elizabeth Gilbert TED talk, A different way to think about creative genius, video filmed Feb. 2009
Ruth Stone poet bio, with links to work
Pauline Gedge The Slow Road to Perfection
Marshall McLuhan
Jane Hirshfield poet bio, with links to work
Michael Chabon Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood The New York Review of Books, Volume 56, Number 12, July 16, 2009
Francine Prose, Close Reading, The Atlantic Fiction Issue, July 2006
Tim O’Brien, Telling Tails, The Atlantic Fiction Issue, July 2009
Joyce Carol Oates, In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters: Notes on Writerly Influences, Narrative Magazine, Fall 2009
Junot Diaz – an interview, Narrative Magazine, Spring 2009
Hilary Mantel on dealing with history in fiction, The Guardian, October 17, 2009
Junot Diaz, Becoming a Writer, O – The Oprah Magazine, November 2009
Colum McCann – an article about the 2009 winner of the National Book Award, The New York Times, November 27, 2009
Toni Morrison, interview, Oprah Magazine, June 16, 2009
Michael Cunningham, A Writer Should Always Feel Like He’s In Over His Head, Oprah Magazine, June 16, 2009
Ten rules for writing fiction – from some of the greats, The Guardian, February 20, 2010
Stephen King, The Salon Interview, September 24, 1998
Stephen King, interview and excerpt from On Writing
Ray Kurzweil – The Singularity is Near
John Grisham, Boxers, Briefs and Books, The New York Times Op-Ed, September 5, 2010
The Paris Review Interviews Archive
Michael Cunningham, Found in Translation, The New York Times, October 2, 2010
The Best American Essays of 2010
Stephen Fry, What I Wish I Had Known When I Was 18
Haruki Murakami, Reality A and Reality B, The New York Times, November 29, 2010
Joseph Campbell and The Hero’s Journey
Aristotle’s Poetics
Virginia Woolf, A Room for One’s Own