Hemingway used to say that writing journalism was good training for novelists. He felt it pared down a writer’s stylistic excesses, privileged clarity and economy over all other virtues. Of course,...
Hemingway used to say that writing journalism was good training for novelists. He felt it pared down a writer’s stylistic excesses, privileged clarity and economy over all other virtues. Of course,...
One evening several years ago, I sat down at my desk and wrote a short, isolated scene for no reason, with no sense whatever of what it was supposed to be or where it was meant to go. This has happened...
From the archives of Atlantic Online, October 2010 The most famous film (admittedly, it may also be the only film) directly concerned with the translation of literature into cinema must be Charlie Kaufman’s...