Stephen King

May 12, 2018

The History of Literature #140 – Pulp Fiction and the Hardboiled Crime Novel (with Charles Ardai)

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL3981967103.mp3 In 1896, an enterprising man named Frank Munsey published the first copy of Argosy, a magazine that combined cheap printing, cheap paper, and cheap authors to bring affordable, high-entertainment fiction to working-class folks. Within six years, Argosy was selling a half a million copies a month, and the American fiction market would never be Continue reading

Arts, Authors, history of literature, Podcast

charles ardai, christa faust, dashiell hammet, film noir, hard case crime, humphrey bogart, james m. cain, sam spade, Stephen King
February 24, 2016

HoL Episode 30 – More Conspiracy!

What do Edgar Allan Poe, J.K. Rowling, William Shakespeare, Stephen King, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Justice Antonin Scalia have in common? Jacke Wilson connects the dots with another look at conspiracy literature, literary conspiracies, and the people who love them. (Part 2 of 2.) Continue reading

Arts, Authors, books, history of literature, novelists, Podcast, Writing

Barack Obama, Edgar Allan Poe, Hillary Clinton, J.K. Rowling, Justice Antonin Scalia, Stephen King, William Shakespeare
December 2, 2015

Writers Laughing: A Jacke Wilson Gallery

Peace on earth, good will to all…and a photo gallery of great writers caught in the act of laughing. Happy holidays! Join us on the History of Literature podcast or at the Jacke Wilson blog for more literary delights. Get the History of Literature podcast: iTunes | Android | RSS | More Subscribe Options Try the latest History Continue reading

Arts, Authors, books, Fiction, history of literature, novelists, Writing

Alice Munro, anita desai, Flannery O’Connor, Gabriel García Márquez, garrett hongo, georges simenon, Henry Miller, j.r.r. tolkien, James Baldwin, Jean-Paul Sartre, john irving, joseph brodsky, kiran desai, kurt vonnegut, lorrie moore, margaret atwood, mary beard, norman mailer, pablo neruda, phillip roth, Ray Bradbury, Samuel Beckett, sandra cisneros, scott fitzgerald, seamus heaney, sherman alexie, Simone de Beauvoir, Stephen King, truman capote, w.e.b. dubois, Writers laughing, Zelda Fitzgerald, zora neale hurston
September 3, 2014

Writers Laughing: Stephen King

Stephen King! We’ve praised his book on writing and pointed out that he’s probably a great guy. We’ve written a story or two he’d probably like. And now it’s time to take a look at what he looks like laughing. Pretty good! He seems like he’d be such a good neighbor…. …as long as you didn’t Continue reading

Authors, Fiction, Novellas, Writing

Authors, family, Fiction, horror, on writing, Stephen King, Writers laughing
May 5, 2014

Stephen King, Great Guy

First things first: I’ve never finished a Stephen King novel. I’ve started a few, but in the end I’ve never really enjoyed the genre enough to submerge myself for hundreds of pages. I’m not trying to be hoity-toity about it (I’ll leave that to Harold Bloom), I”m just letting you know: I’m more or less Continue reading

Authors, Fiction, Writing

history of the fatwa, on writing, Salman Rushdie, Stephen King, vanity fair
November 19, 2013

Fighting Discouragement: You Are New!

In an interview with Tinhouse’s J.C. Hallman, Walter Kirn refers to a common anxiety among writers: J.C. Hallman: Do creative writers have an obligation to act as critics, to offer up alternatives to traditional critical methodologies and assumptions? Walter Kirn: Creative writers have no obligation do anything, including their own creative work. That’s what makes Continue reading

Authors, Fiction, Publishing, Writing

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Stephen King

The History of Literature #140 – Pulp Fiction and the Hardboiled Crime Novel (with Charles Ardai)

HoL Episode 30 – More Conspiracy!

Writers Laughing: A Jacke Wilson Gallery

Writers Laughing: Stephen King

Stephen King, Great Guy

Fighting Discouragement: You Are New!