Friday, March 4, 2011

Writing on Writers, Writing on Writing

Oh so meta.

Author Joe Woodwardrecently shared in the Books section of the Huffington Post a review of The Best American Essays 2010. In it he points about that about a third of the content in this publication is made up of writers, writing about writing. Jane Kramer’s piece from The New Yorker, “Me Myself and I” discusses the birth of the modern essay in the works of French writer Michel de Montaigne. James Woods writes about reading George Orwell’s “A Fine Rage”. Ian McEwan describes the eponymous author in “On John Updike” as a Lutheran “toubled by science as others are troubled by God.” [READ MORE HERE]

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