John Irving

Mike's Writing Workshop & Newsletter: Big Think Interview with John Irving

Joylene Nowell Butler (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

Mike's Writing Workshop & Newsletter: Big Think Interview with John Irving

Irving's ‘Last Night in Twisted River' mirrors his career

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...

John Irving on Big Think

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 .

The Hotel New Hampshire Revisited

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...

• Keep Passing the Open Windows - Moon in the Gutter

Authors: On Writing

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 [...]

Authors Advise How To Write A Great Novel

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 [...]

• How to write a great novel - Bookninja

Master of Disaster

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.”

What's Selling in Books and Non-Books? John Irving and Recycled Coin Purses.

Boswell and Books (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Here are our latest hardcover fiction bestsellers: 1. The Gathering Storm, by Robert Jordan 2. Last Night in Twisted River, by John Irving 3. Wild Things (fur-covered version), by Dave Eggers 4. Half-Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls 5. A Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore 6. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown 7. The Help, by Katherine Stockett 8. Chronic City, by Jonathan Lethem 9. Her Fearful Symmetry,...

'Last Night in Twisted River,' by John Irving

San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Last Night in Twisted River By John Irving (Random House; 554 pages; $28) To be an avid reader of John Irving is to court disappointment. The very attributes that make much of his work so enjoyable - his eccentric sense of humor, the vividness he brings to...

Big Think Interview with John Irving

Mike's Writing Workshop & Newsletter (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Writer/Journalist/Columnist. Awarded for outstanding column and feature writing by APSE (Associated Press Sports Editors) 2005, 2006; won New York Publishers Association's contest for Distinguished Sports Writing, 2007; included seven times in annual Best American Sports Writing anthology; voted Best Sportswriter in New York City by New York Press, 1990; won first place for profile writing by the Society...

John Irving Worries about Young Writers

MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

In this candid video interview, novelist John Irving confessed that his first novel, "Setting Free The Bears," would not be published in our 21st Century publishing industry. In a new Big Think interview , he explained: "If I were twenty-seven and trying to publish my first novel today, I might be tempted to shoot myself...I think it's a lot tougher to be a first [time] novelist, to...

Guardian Newspaper Photographer

GREEN HEART DEN (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Earlier today John Baxter a Cumbrian photographer working for the Guardian visited the Green Heart Den to take pictures for an article being written about the project. It is hoped that the article will shortly appear in a Guardian Neswpaper suppliment. Thank you to PC John Irving of Cumbria Police / Streetsafe and Neighbourhood Manager Steve Robson from Central and Hindpool Neighbourhood Management...

Attention, Authors: John Irving sympathizes

Dystel & Goderich Literary Management (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

A word-- via Big Think --from one of my favorite authors, John Irving, on the challenges of getting published today. Tempted to shoot yourself, John? Hyperbole much? In any case, writers, he feels your pain. -Chasya

A Novel Twenty Years in the Making

Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

While John Irving has come to stand as the American novelist par excellence , he is not particularly into the novel—in its modern form—nor, for that matter, America. In fact, as he suggested in his new Big Think interview , the most valuable contribution to the storytelling tradition to arise from the country might just be the western movie. Irving also discussed the thrill of beginning...

Books: Review:John Irving: Last Night In Twisted River

A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Last Night In Twisted River is the I’m Not There of John Irving novels. Like Todd Haynes’ attempts to turn Bob Dylan into a figure of myth in that film, Irving playfully invents a story that’s as much about the pleasures of reading one of his novels as it is anything else, until it poignantly turns into a paean for a dying art and a plea for the idea of the story. This could all...