Bestselling novelist and literary icon Judith Krantz died at home on Los Angeles on Saturday. She was 91. Though her first book was not published until she was 50, Krantz had been one of the bestselling novelists in the world for many decades. From the New York Times: Though she did not publish her first book until she was 50, Ms. Krantz reigned for decades afterward as the international queen of poolside reading. Her 10 […]
Does creativity have a taste? And, if it does, is it salty or sweet? Does it come in a bag or a can? Do you spend hours in the kitchen preparing it, or do you pick up the phone? The fuels of creativity can take many forms and what authors use for that fuel varies starkly from writer to writer. January Magazine’s “Authors on Snacks” isn’t a judgment. Rather it’s a personal peek at what […]
Charles Reich, the author responsible for the first “Greening of America” is dead at age 91. From AP: Reich was a popular Yale University professor whose students included both Bill and Hillary Clinton and a respected legal scholar when a 39,000-word excerpt from “The Greening of America” ran in The New Yorker in September 1970, generating a massive volume of letters. The book was published a few weeks later and sold more than 2 […]
As a lead up to the New Yorker’s much awaited annual fiction issue, the magazine asks their writers what they’re reading this summer. It’s a predictably mixed bag. Naomi Fry writers about Lillian Ross’s 1952 Picture, “now happily reissued by the New York Review of Books Classics imprint, is an immensely enjoyable work about the immensely unenjoyable process of making a Hollywood movie. In the book’s five chapters—first published, in this magazine, as a series […]
The author of Eat, Pray, Love (2006) recently told the Seattle Times that her new book, City of Girls, saved her. From the Seattle Times: Early last year, Gilbert’s romantic partner and longtime best friend, Rayya Elias, died of cancer at the age of 57. You might expect someone famous for exploring her own life through memoir to process the aftermath of loss by writing nonfiction — and it’s what Gilbert herself expected. She had […]
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