José Saramago | José Saramago
Jan.17.2013
The 53-word site may be interesting to writers who find it challenging and informative to work with a limited palette. A 53-word story is almost impossible, but it puts you in a show-don't-tell vise that forces you to find the bare bones of a story.
In truth, I like to read good telling when...
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Jun.19.2010
As a child, I had a favourite if secret game. I would cover a book with brown paper that we used for covering our text books. On the newly concealed spine, I would painstakingly write my name with a dark coloured, felt-tip marker. This was the particularly arduous part as I have never been good...
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Jun.12.2009
The summer issue of The Drawbridge is now out. Available online as well at major bookstores, the issue carries writing by Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago and the Latin American great Mario Vargas Llosa. It also has a new translation of a short story by Sadat Hasan Manto, as well as contemporary...
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Jan.08.2009
Drenka Willen Returns! Günter Grass' Editor Hauled Back to HMH
by Leon Neyfakh
Drenka Willen was just one of many individuals—including one woman seven months pregnant and another on maternity leave—to be hastily laid off last month from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt amid budget cuts. She is, however...
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Dec.23.2008
As authors, it is an integral part of our nature to solve mysteries not of our creation: especially those stories writ large by life. We attempt to unravel plot strands, to analyze the most compelling characters in the story. Needles to say, every author rewrites history.
In his essay for Salon (...
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