Novel – Jacke Wilson

August 10, 2021

The History of Literature #332 – Hamlet (with Laurie Frankel)

Novelist Laurie Frankel joins Jacke to talk about her writing, her theater background, and her new novel One Two Three. Then Jacke and Laurie geek out on Shakespeare and choose the Top 10 Things To Love About Hamlet. Laurie Frankel is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of novels such as The Atlas of Love, Goodbye for Now, and the Reese’s Continue reading

history of literature, Podcast

Hamlet, laurie frankel, Novel, one two three, soup, William Shakespeare

November 17, 2013

Parks v. Sacks: Can A Novelist Make Magic?

Tim Parks is a novelist and critic. (The distinction is important.) Recently he wrote a piece for the New York Review of Books blog about the current state of novels, and what it means for today’s novelist. Parks’s essay, worth reading in its entirety, starts out slowly. Parks apparently feels compelled to describe (only to Continue reading

Authors, Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing

Buddhism, Death of the novel, Essay, Forbidden, New York Review of Books, Novel, Sam Sacks, Short story, Tim Parks

November 15, 2013

Failure and Penelope Fitzgerald

Oh, good lord. No wonder I love Penelope Fitzgerald so much. Here I thought it was the short length of her novels. Instead it’s the life experience: By that time, in her early sixties, Penelope Fitzgerald was long accustomed to humiliation and, far worse, to catastrophe. Indeed, her late flowering as a novelist of extraordinary Continue reading

Authors, Fiction, Writing

Arts, Fitzgerald, Hermione Lee, Literature, Mark Bostridge, Novel, Penelope Fitzgerald