The Critical Response to John Irving (Critical Responses in Arts and Letters)
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
IT'S HARD NOT to approach an interview with John Irving with some trepidation having read his latest novel, . The book's protagonist, Danny Angel, is a writer, like Irving, born in the early 1940s, like Irving, who studies at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, like Irving did, and who hates journalists, believing "most of them lacked the imagination to believe that anything credible in a novel had been...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
We were expecting PETA to bring its full fury down on John Irving following New York 's expose of the novelist's brutal baseball-bat bludgeoning of a porcupine inside his three-car garage, but we heard only crickets — until today. We're told by a reliable source that Irving was confronted by a measly two porcupine-abuse protesters on his way out of a Kansas City hotel, and that there was no...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
"I was pretty determinedly not a practitioner of autobiographical fiction. But the longer I get away from something - the political anger, the personal hurt, the psychological obsession - the easier it is to write about. And the more I can afford to be playful or, a better word, manipulative."...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Lucy Daniel is absorbed by Last Night in Twisted River John Irving's new novel
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Hardcover fiction 1. The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. Book 12 of the Wheel of Time fantasy series. (1 week on list) 2. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. Robert Langdon among the Masons. (7) 3. True Blue by David Baldacci. An ex-cop in Washington struggles to clear her name. (1) 4. Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving. A loggers' cook and his son are on the run from the...
Mike Hudack (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
“If I was 27 and trying to publish my first novel today, I might be tempted to shoot myself.” - John Irving (via meaghano ) But, he says, “I don’t think the [institution of] the book is in any peril.” (via nickdouglas )
A Village Quilter (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Thought I'd let you know about a great book that Radio 4 will be having as their book for Bookclub . The programme format is the audience will have the book and the author, John Irving, is there to answer them. I can't begin to tell you what a great book it is. I've always found that John Irving books always make me laugh, when I know I shouldn't and always have surprises in them. This one is so funny...
let's talk about Digital (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
John Irving has always called himself an underdog, and he still talks like one — even at 67, even wildly famous as one of America’s great storytellers, even at the release of his 12th novel, certain to be a best-seller. Maybe he feels goaded. A recent review of “Last Night in Twisted River” used such words as tricked-up, gimmicky, cartoony, cheesy and preposterous...
Joylene Nowell Butler (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Mike's Writing Workshop & Newsletter: Big Think Interview with John Irving
A Writer's Desk (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Big Think, one of my new favorite websites, interviews the author of The World According to Garp. You can watch the full interview here .
Nostalgia Kinky (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Even though he was nearing sixty years old when he shot his adaptation of John Irving's The Hotel New Hampshire in the fall of 1983, Tony Richardson was still artistically at the top of his game with seemingly all of the energy in the world at his disposal. That Richardson had intended to make two films, instead of just the one, from Irving's material shows even clearer that this was a director truly...
caribousmom (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I am always interested in what authors have to say about HOW they write and the craft of writing a novel. I found some interesting videos on You Tube which I hope you’ll enjoy! John Irving: On Writing Joyce Carol Oates: On Writing Characters Stephen King: How You Know When You are a Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger [...]
CAFFEINATED POLITICS (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
This was a wonderful read in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, and as such I think others who enjoy books, and writing will find this equally interesting. I offer small snippets from a longer, and very rewarding article. While reading this my mind thought of Madison writer Emily Mills who has self-published. (I still envy her for that.) John Irving [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
John Irving’s new novel follows a father and son through 50 years in “a world of accidents.”
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