John Irving

John Irving on Big Think

A Writer's Desk (Free subscription) | yesterday

Big Think, one of my new favorite websites, interviews the author of The World According to Garp. You can watch the full interview here .

Authors: On Writing

caribousmom (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

I am always interested in what authors have to say about HOW they write and the craft of writing a novel. I found some interesting videos on You Tube which I hope you’ll enjoy! John Irving: On Writing Joyce Carol Oates: On Writing Characters Stephen King: How You Know When You are a Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger [...]

Authors Advise How To Write A Great Novel

CAFFEINATED POLITICS (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

This was a wonderful read in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, and as such I think others who enjoy books, and writing will find this equally interesting. I offer small snippets from a longer, and very rewarding article. While reading this my mind thought of Madison writer Emily Mills who has self-published. (I still envy her for that.) John Irving [...]

• How to write a great novel - Bookninja

What's Selling in Books and Non-Books? John Irving and Recycled Coin Purses.

Boswell and Books (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Here are our latest hardcover fiction bestsellers: 1. The Gathering Storm, by Robert Jordan 2. Last Night in Twisted River, by John Irving 3. Wild Things (fur-covered version), by Dave Eggers 4. Half-Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls 5. A Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore 6. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown 7. The Help, by Katherine Stockett 8. Chronic City, by Jonathan Lethem 9. Her Fearful Symmetry,...

Big Think Interview with John Irving

Mike's Writing Workshop & Newsletter (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Writer/Journalist/Columnist. Awarded for outstanding column and feature writing by APSE (Associated Press Sports Editors) 2005, 2006; won New York Publishers Association's contest for Distinguished Sports Writing, 2007; included seven times in annual Best American Sports Writing anthology; voted Best Sportswriter in New York City by New York Press, 1990; won first place for profile writing by the Society...

Guardian Newspaper Photographer

GREEN HEART DEN (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

Earlier today John Baxter a Cumbrian photographer working for the Guardian visited the Green Heart Den to take pictures for an article being written about the project. It is hoped that the article will shortly appear in a Guardian Neswpaper suppliment. Thank you to PC John Irving of Cumbria Police / Streetsafe and Neighbourhood Manager Steve Robson from Central and Hindpool Neighbourhood Management...

Attention, Authors: John Irving sympathizes

Dystel & Goderich Literary Management (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

A word-- via Big Think --from one of my favorite authors, John Irving, on the challenges of getting published today. Tempted to shoot yourself, John? Hyperbole much? In any case, writers, he feels your pain. -Chasya

A Novel Twenty Years in the Making

Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

While John Irving has come to stand as the American novelist par excellence , he is not particularly into the novel—in its modern form—nor, for that matter, America. In fact, as he suggested in his new Big Think interview , the most valuable contribution to the storytelling tradition to arise from the country might just be the western movie. Irving also discussed the thrill of beginning...

A Very Long Interview with John Irving

Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

Photo by Everett Irving I talked with writer John Irving this morning in the back of Powell's on Hawthorne. (The conversation was planned; his publisher had arranged it.) As he autographed copy after copy of his latest novel, Last Night in Twisted River , in preparation for his reading at the Bagdad Theater tonight, he spoke to me about the new book and about the significance—or lack thereof—of...

Reading Tonight: HULK HOGAN!

Slog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009

Usually, bookstores take Election Night off, but there are a ton of readings tonight , including a book about murder and honor at Elliott Bay Book Company, a book about a long trek home at University Book Store, a discussion about, er, "fierce" leadership at the Pan Pacific Hotel, and the UW reading series Castalia at the Hugo House. There are two readings at Town Hall tonight. Brian Fagan...

Twisted Fates Await His Characters

Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009

John Irving came by Big Think to discuss his latest book, "Last Night in Twisted River," and the craft of fiction writing. He explained that for each of his 12 novels, he began by writing the last sentence first and then reverse-engineered the plot, developing it in his head and on Post-It notes plastered to the wall of his study. He always writes the first draft longhand, he said, and then...

Tonight was a good night!

Sharon In Mongolia (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009

Tonight was supposed to be a quiet night for doing laundry, buying groceries, reading a John Irving novel, and engaging in personal introspection. Instead, I spent the evening drinking (moderately!) with a friend and now I have a tattoo of a smiling ghost wearing a top hat and she has a tattoo of a sock and a folded paper airplane. Such is life!

John Irving is Old School. He Likes Plot.

Stray Carrier Pigeon (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009

John Irving and Charlie Gibson on Good Morning America . Next on my reading list is John Irving's Last Night in Twisted River . And after that? The Mayor of Casterbridge . I like characters. And their thoughts, and their feelings, and their complexes, and their strengths. I also like scenery. And its vistas, its weather, its milieu. I also like plot. And I don't have to be embarrassed anymore. Plot...

Friday Jibber-Jabber

Blades Out (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009

As I try to juggle writing this blog, the Warwick's blog , pieces for KPBS's Culture Lust blog with packing my house for a cross-town move and reading 3 books at once, like an idiot, (Foer's Eating Animals , In Other Rooms, Other Wonders , & Orhan Pamuk's dense tome, The Museum of Innocence ) today I thought I'd just link to my short plea for independent bookstores over at my work blog. Feel free....

Method Sewing

K-Line (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009

On the weekend I went to see John Irving at the Harbourfront Reading Series . My friend Nicole, she of the sewing fame, kindly invited me to go and it was an awesome event. Intriguingly, Mr. Irving opted to spend most of his allotted reading time to a discussion - well, monologue really - of his "creative process". This was both fascinating and irrelevant (as far as I was concerned). I mean,...

The World According to Garp | Download The World According to Garp Movie

jetsz | 15/09/2009

Want to download "The World According to Garp" full movie online ? Read on as I share with you more about the movie and where to download "The World According to Garp". "Garp was a natural storyteller," says the narrator of John Irving's incandescent novel, referring to the book's hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in common with Irving himself. "He could make things up one right after the other,...