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More on Great American Novel
Continuing the Conversation By Dick Cummins Prompted by Eric’s guest post on Portland Book Review’s Writers on Writing blog, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop grad Dick Cummins continues the Great American Novel debate. Here’s what you get for poking the word bears. When I used to hear the term “Great American Novel,” I just thought [...]
Books by Eric Olsen’s Bed
Eric says first, let me admit that one of the books by my bed has been there for more than a year. Indeed, I think I mentioned it months ago in my last update for Books by the Bed. It’s The War of the World by Niall Ferguson. The subtitle is “Twentieth-Century Conflict and the [...]
The Conscience of the Writer
By Eric Olsen At the recent Iowa Writers’ Workshop 75th anniversary celebration, the concluding session was titled “The Writer as Public Figure.” I went with great expectations, silly me, looking forward to an interesting discussion on, I dunno, maybe the writer as “public intellectual?” You know, the writer as someone who writes for a general audience [...]
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