A Writing Geek

Thomas Pynchon's Gavity's Rainbow has 902 pages, and is a difficult novel to read. I've always wanted to read it. But only rece...

Submission is about an academic-intellectual's conversion to Islam, It's also about the end of a brilliant intellectual life devote...

So the Man Booker Prize goes to another American writer this year: George Saunders. Last year it was Paul Beatty. Tow Americans in a row. ...

I’ve come to believe that all the arts are about time, but that the novel in particular is about the and-so-on of things, continuance and c...

Kazuo Ishiguro is a British writer - a traditional novelist with some  popular appeal. A Japanese who migrated to UK when he was just five,...