“I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and opted for the Home Shopping Network instead)...”
—Stephen King, from “On Writing” (2000)
Previous Daily Bytes
Henry James On French & Brits Rubbing Off
V.S. Naipaul Flatters Himself
Freud & James Duel Over Religion
de Beauvoir: American Anti-Frenchism
Chris Hedges: On War
Patricia Heaton: Celebrity's Entitlements
Bernard Shaw: National Character
Ha Jin: Human Obliterations
Lawrence Wright: Withdrawal Fantasies
Anita Hill: Clarence Thomas Syndrome
Doris Lessing: When I Was an Idiot
Mario Vargas Llosa Deconstructs 1968
Joseph Brodsky: Water, Image of Time
Manguel: Reading's Miracles
Tocqueville: America's Provincial Press
Edith Wharton: Marriage's Slavery
Edward O. Wilson: Evolution's Creationism
Maya Angelou: Color-Blind Canada
Janet Malcolm: Email's Perilous Prose
Kay Gibbons: Ellen Foster Shops
Don DeLillo: Orgasmic OJ ad
Sinclair Lewis: Screed of Closed Minds
F.Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Bigotry
Jack Kerouack: Police States
Arthur Koestler: Man Before Mankind
Richard Rorty on the 1960s
Edmund Wilson
Gabriel García Márquez
Stephen King
Saul Bellow
Jonathan Raban
Louis Brandeis
Daily Byte Archives, 2007
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