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Ian McEwan published his first novel in the late 1970s, but it wasn’t until the late eighties that he began to sneak into the spotlight, with his 1987 novel The Child in Time winning a Whitbread Award and his 1998 novel Amsterdam winning the Man Booker. Then, in 2001, he blew everyone’s minds with Atonement, his most widely known and successful novel. A remarkably prolific writer despite his …
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Reddit – the self-declared front page of the internet. This weird combo of a social news aggregate, discussion forum, and content-sharing site has been around since 2005 and, despite the occasional controversy, it continues to be an open, accessible, and mostly friendly place for those interested in, well, anything. That’s right – there’s a subreddit (a dedicated area of the site) for just …
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Great Britain, if you haven’t heard of it, is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, just north of France. It’s very rainy, and the people who live here like to talk about how rainy it is more than perhaps any other topic. We’re consistent like that. Despite this inauspicious description, writers and filmmakers keep finding reasons to either set their work in Britain or write British characters. The …
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Chilean novelist Isabel Allende needs no introduction; the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author, Allende boasts a trophy cabinet full of awards and honors, including the Obama-bestowed Presidential Medal of Freedom. Known for her intensely personal fiction, Allende often blends magical-realist elements with historical narratives and biographical aspects. Despite her mastery of the …
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Satire, pastiche, homage, and parody – four literary terms subject to frequent misuse. Most readers and writers have some sense of what each word means, but many struggle to pin down the specifics – something about real-world references, humor, and mockery, right? Well, kind of. These four horsemen may describe similar genre conventions and devices, but don’t be fooled: they’re not synonymous. …
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Reader, I have a confession to make: I like Jonathan Franzen. I know, I know, but look – put down your pitchforks, call off the hounds of Twitter, let’s talk about this. I know it’s popular to hate on Franzen. I know that, ever since he thought The Corrections was too good for Oprah’s Book Club (which, I mean, it was), the consensus has been that Franzen’s a wealthy, elitist, privileged pig who …
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