Entries from L I T T O R A L | the journal of the Key West Literary Seminar tagged with 'Thomas Mallon'
Friday Night Writers' Party
For the writers who join us each January, one of the highlights is the Friday night writers' party. Seward and Joyce Johnson hosted this one at their southernmost home. Photos by Curt Richter Thomas Mallon and Phyllis Rose Calvin Baker...
Writers Recommend
With more than 40 writers scheduled to speak during our Seminar this January, it can be difficult for a reader to know where to start. Sure, there are the classics and prize-winners, like William Kennedy's Ironweed and David Levering Lewis's two-volume biography of W.E.B. DuBois; and there are the most recent books, like Joyce Carol Oates's Wild Nights! and Gore Vidal's </em>Selected Essays<em>. But what of the hundreds you won't have time for? The exquisite pastime of reading can suddenly grow so stressful.<br> <br> With this in mind, we've asked our panelists which books </em>they<em> would recommend from among their own works and those of their peers. We kick off this recurring feature with historians Eric Foner and Jill Lepore, and novelist and critic Thomas Mallon
<em>Plausible Presence:</em><br>a conversation with Thomas Mallon
In this installment of our ongoing interview series, Thomas Mallon talks about Fellow Travelers, the rumors of Senator McCarthy's own homosexuality, and the current state of historical fiction, including works by Gore Vidal and William Kennedy, both of whom will join Mallon in January 2009 during our 27th annual Seminar, Historical Fiction and The Search for Truth.
Weekend Reading
Thomas Mallon reviews Joshua Kendall's new biography of the eccentric Peter Mark Roget, creator of the Thesaurus, in this weekend's New York Times Book Review. The review is Obsessed (Agog, Beset, Consumed, Driven, etc.) and contains the wonderful Thesaurus-aided comment...
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