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Please remember: In sync with the ethos of the web, the list below is always in the making. Please let us know if you've made new discoveries as you make your excursions into cyberia, and please check out related web pages on this site as well.

Note as well that, while many websites may be informative and useful, they are typically no substitute for the more sustained scholarly discussion of a book.

To be updated and expanded periodically — please stay tuned!

• MAL PAL, MEDIA HUB and THEO PAL in the navigation menu above, as well as the dividing membrane between modern and contemporary/postmodern literature/culture/theory, is, much in the spirit of postmodern forms of destabilization, fluid and permeable.
• Reel Web and JAZZ PAL, also in the navigation menu above, might lead you to useful web resources on film & film criticism.
• Modern American Poetry (MAP), a comprehensive learning environment and scholarly forum for the study of modern and contemporary American poetry, is also a most useful beginning resource.

General

African-American History & Culture

Individual Writers and Artists

For 20th/21st-century American poets, the Modern American Poetry site (above) is generally useful. Many contemporary writers are also featured per audio and video on, among others, National Public Radio and YouTube. See ReelWeb for sites on film.

• Edward Albee, "Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright for a Desparate Era, Dies at 88" (17 Sept. 2016)
• Edward Abbey, [to be done :)]
  David Owen, Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River (2017)
• Meena Alexander, I-Buried Stones, Celebrating Meena Alexander (Doodle)
• Paul Auster, PA I, Man in the Dark (NPR), Invisible (NPR), New York Trilogy, [Locked Room Mystery]; PA Obituary (30 April 2024); PA's Best Books: A Guide; Lucy Sante, PA, An Appreciation
• Paolo Bacigalupi, The Water Knife,  WK podcast (Radio West, 2015); WK (NPR); WK, Water Knife discussion site (Bryan Alexander); PB on sci-fi and "accidental futures"; Stegner/Powell/PB; Interview in SLT (June 24)
  => Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert (1986) quotes;  Colorado River Compact (1922); CAP (Central Arizona Project); Interactive Map: Indian Water Rights in the Colorado River Basin (Circle Blue); Lake Mead / Las Vegas' "Third Straw"; Lake Mead Third Intake Documentary; Foreign-owned farms along the Colorado River (2022); Persistent Drought and Overdevelopment (PBS, 13 March 2023); LDS Church Donating Thousands of Acre-Feet of Water to GSL (SLT, March 2023); White House Proposing Evenly Cutting Water Allotments from Colorado River (NYT, 11 April 23); Tulare Lake Returning. Nature Would Like a Word (NYT, 12 April 23); A Breakthrough Deal to Keep the Colorado River From Going Dry, for Now (NYT, 22 May 23); What Arizona ... can learn can learn from Israel's pioneering water stragegy (Con, 12 Sept 23)
  => The Other Side of the Same Coin: The nation’s capital, built on water, struggles to keep from drowning (WP, 12/23)
   
• James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues, JB Teacher Resources, NYT Obit, Colm Toibin on Giovanni's Room,  I am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck 2017); The History that JB Wanted America to See (NY 2020); What the (Pentecostal) church meant to JB. On Go Tell It on the Mountain; James Baldwin's 100th Birthday: From Harlem to Selma to Paris: JB's Life in Pictures (2 August 2024)
  - of related interest: Jazz improvisation and creative flow
• Russell Banks, I, II, Salon Inter I, Inter II, Inter III/The Darling, Inter IV 2008, YT-Reserve, YT-LP Film Forum, YT-Intro to Bone, Lost Memory of Skin; Jonathan Franzen on Rule of the Bone;  FBI & Weather Underground, Foregone (2021)
• Amiri Baraka, The Dutchman I, DM II, S O S (Poems 1961-2013), Democracy Now: Commemorating Amiri Baraka; Why Is We Americans? (documentary, 2022); NYT Obituary (2023)
• (Amy) Quan Barry, When I am Gone, Look For Me In The East (2022)
• John Barth, JB Information Center, NYT & JB, Scriptorium
• Saul Bellow, NYT Obits & Reviews,  SB's Three Sons Remember Him
• Elizabeth Bishop, "One Art": 19 Lines That Turn Anguish Into Art
• Boyle, T. C., TCB - official website; When the Killing is Done (2011), Killing II, I - Killing , 
• David Bradley, DB I,  DB II, DB III, The Chaneysville Incident
• Gwendolyn Brooks, GB I, GB II, GB III, Black Perspectives: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks; GBrooks <=> Terrance Hayes, Golden Shovel Poems; "kitchenette building"; Poem Guide, "the mother" (Poetry Foundation)
• Sterling Brown, The Negro Caravan (documentary)
• Charles Bukowski, CB I, CB II, CB III, Barfly, Factotum (Sundance 2006), Raymond Carver/Charles Bukowski (2020)
• William Burroughs, A Man Within (2010, documentary)
• Octavia Butler, How Octavia E. Butler mined her boundless curiosity to forge a new vision for humanity 
• Robert Olen Butler, ROB on webdelsol.com (including online texts), ROB at Work, ROB Interview, Good Scent I, Good Scent II, Perfume River (Sept 2016)
• Raymond Carver, NYT Featured Author I, II
• Michael Chabon, "The Imaginary Jew" (The Nation), MC on Cormac McCarthy's The Road; The Sandmeyer Reaction: A Short Story (2016)
• Michael Crichton (NYT Obituary)
• Ta-Nehisi Coates,  We Were Eight Years in Powers / Public Intellectual (2017), Captain America No. 1 (7/18). The Water Dancer: Mingling History & Fantasy
• Mark Danielewski, The Fifty Year Sword (Oct 12)
• Don DeLillo, DD-- NYTAuthor Page"The Power of History," Jeffrey MacIntyre on DD, The Angel Esmeralda (2011), Cosmopolis (film review), Don DeLillo's America (including numerous links); Zero K I, Zero K II; "Intensity of a Plot," Guernica 2007; Why Don DeLillo Deserves the Nobel Prize; Silence (2020), DD on Silence; "Baader-Meinhof" I (short story), B-M II;  Game 6 (1985, movie); Underworld (1997, review by Martin Amis)
  - White Noise (Noah Baumbach, 2022), WN-Review I, White Noise and the 2020s; The Essential Don DeLillo (5/24)
• Junot Diaz, Cleared of Misconduct at M.I.T.
• Philip K. Dick,  To The Best of Our Knowledge (2017), The Essential Philip K. Dick (2022)

• E. L. Doctorow, ELD Official Web Site, NYT Featured Author, John Leonard, "The Prophet"(NYRB), ELD on Sweet Land Stories (NPR audio), The Trial of Harry Houdini; How the Author of ‘Ragtime’ Taught an Aspiring Writer to Hear the Music; Ragtime Revisited (2022)
  - ELD on Bush, The March and the Historical Novel (review), ELD on The March (NPR audio), Brief Interview on The March, etc., NPR ELD Features
  - ELD on Homer & Langley (NPR audio), H&L (NYT), ELD on H&L, H&L (Diane Rehm), All the Time in the World (NYT), ELD on YouTube;   2013 Gold Medal--National Book Awards, ; "I don't have a style, but the books do" (Guardian 2010)
  - Andrew's Brain I, II, III, ELD-By  the Book. Tom LeClair, "The Brain Man"; Ron Charles, Andrew's Brain
    Ray Kurzweil on Singularity I
  - City of God:  Paul Tillich, Albert Einstein I, AE II, AE III, AE IV;  ELD: Jazz Inspired; Teachers' Guide to City of God
  - ELD-Obits I, II, III, IV, V, VI (Michael Chabon), Te-Nehisi  Coates on E. L. Doctorow; "The End of Us" (LARB);  ELD's Postmodernist Style (LARB), ELD and (Non-)Nostalgia (New Republic); "The Limits of Optimism: ELD and the American Left" (Counterpunch); George Saunders, "The Bravery of E. L. Doctorow" (New Yorker); Victor Navasky on ELD (The Nation); Vilnius:  Treasure Trove of Yiddish Artifacts (NYT); A Master Storyteller’s Advice for Graduates: ‘Be Brave. Be Kind.’ (Graduation speech at Bronx HS of Science 2011)
  - The Waterworks, Ron Soodalter,  "The Union's 'Shoddy' Aristocracy"; Sarah Weicksel, Six Questions with a Civil War Material Culture scholar
  - A Newly Discovered Story by E.L. Doctorow (Bruce Weber, NY, 1 July 2024)

• Anthony Doerr, Profile/Cloud Cuckoo Land (2021); Cloud Cuckoo Land II, CCL Recap & Summary,

• Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010), Goon Squad II, Goon Squad III,  I-JE & Google; I-JE & Daily Beast; Conversation: Jennifer Egan & George Saunders, Great Rock and Roll Pauses; Proust and Punk;  Dictators Cleaning Up Their Image
  - "Punk Rock Moment--San Francisco: 1978,"  Footnote: Gilbert Sorrentino, This Must Be The Place (2011)
  -  Manhattan Beach I , II , III (2017), By the Book.
  - The Candy Store (2022), JE on Candy Store (podcast), 
• Steve Erickson, SE-official site, Interview I, I-II, I-III, I-IV,Frequency of Liberation, Zeroville R I, Zero R II, Zero R III, Dreams of You R I, Films referenced in Zeroville; Zeroville Soundtrack; Shadowbahn (2/17)
  - The Manson Murders: What to Read, Watch, and Listen To
• Ralph Ellison, RE I, Invisible Man, The RE Project/Ellison and Jazz, RE's Politics, Selected Letters of RE (2019)
• Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, The Marriage Plot, " By the Book"
• Everett, Percival, Erasure (2001)/American Fiction (2023, Podcast); James (2024); Gulp Fiction, or Into The Missouri-verse: On Percival Everett’s James;
• Frantz Fanon (novel by John Edgar Wideman, NYT)
• Raymond Federman, RF I, RF II, RF III, RF Interview I, RF Interview II, RFblogspot, (2010)NYT Obits & Reviews (not yet hyperlinked), Shhh: The Story of a Childhood
• Jonathan Franzen, JF TIME Profile/Freedom, Purity (Colm Toibin), The Rage of Jonathan Franzen, JF is Fine With All of It (2018), "What if We Stopped Pretending?" (2019)
• William Gaddis, The Gaddis Annotations, 2005 International Gaddis Conference
• Cristina Garcia, Here in Berlin(2018)
• Leonard Gardner, Fat City (1969)
• William Gibson, Cyberpunk, etc., Neuromancer and Bladerunner, Gibson & SciFi Resources,
   WG Interviews, Study Guides I, Neuromancer, Bladerunner, and SciFi Novels I, The Hollywood Afterlife of Phillip K. Dick (audio); F Jameson on Gibson; Irish Times Interview (2003); WP on Spook Country, etc. (audio)
• Allen Ginsberg, AG I; footnote to Howl; Howl (the film, 2010); The Best Minds of My Generation (2017);  see Beat pages above
• Amitav Ghosh, Amitav Ghosh: Home; US AID, Protecting Wildlife and Forests in the Sundarbans; AG: The Humanities and Climate Change; When Climate Change is Stranger than Fiction (2019); Ghosh on Indian Lockdown & COVID-19; What the West Doesn't Get about the Climate Crisis
  - Gun Island I (2019) GI II, Gun Island and the Stories that Emerge on a Changing Planet, I-Gun Island I; I-Gun Island II; I-Gun Island III
    => - Life Tracking Map: Cyclone Fani (5/19), AG on Indian Epics in Modern Novels; Human-cetacean communication: diver rescues whale; Pandemic as Prologue; (Donna Leone & Italian culture/environmentalism); The Little Ice Age and Climate Change (7/21); Tiger Widows in the Sundarbans
  - Ibis Trilogy: The Opium Wars in China I, II, III, IV, The Tea Heist of the Century :),
  - The Nutmeg's Curse (2021), Interview I, Brutes, 
  - The Living Mountain (2022),  LM I, LM II
• Louise Glück , LG-Nobel 2020; Tribute; I-LG, LG-quick guide:); LG-obituary (10/23); 5 essential poems
• Andrew Sean Greer, ASG homepage; I-Vogue
• Robert Haas & Gertrude Stein
• Gil Scott Heron, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (You Tube)
• Michael Herr, MH-Interview
• Patricia Highsmith, PH (wiki entry); see links to (1) Todd Haynes in FilmPal for Carol and (2) to the site, McCarthyism and the Red Scare
  of related interest:
  - Fire Island's Queer Literary History, 1940-1980s
  - Pulp Fiction: Valerie Taylor, lesbian literature and 1950s America
• Skip Horack, NYT-The Eden Hunter (2010)
• Langston Hughes, LH Teacher Resource File, LH and his Favorite Music, LH II, LH and the Harlem Renaissance
• Hughes, Rian. XX I, XX II
• Ha Jin, A Good Fall, Nanjing Requiem, Requiem - DRehm,  Map-Reviews I, II, III (NPR), The Boat Rocker (2016); The Banished Immortal (2019)
  Many Reasons Behind Double-Eyelid Surgery
• John Irving, JI, JI and Charles Dickens (NPR audio), JR interview I, JR interview II (Twisted River)
• Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac I,  On The Road; On the Road & Jazz; "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose," see Beat pages and Look Back at the Typewriter above, Jack Kerouac's Famous Scroll, "On the Road" again (NPR, 2007)
• Stephen King, The Essential SK, Times Topic: Stephen King, 
• Maxine Hong Kingston, I Love a Broad Margin, Celeste Cg and Maxine Hong Kingston on The Woman Warrior
• Phil Klay, PK-Home, Redployment I, II, III, IV,
  - Interview I, I-II
  - Military Jargon from Iraq and Afghanistan; Acronyms Glossary for POLO STEP Iraq War Planning Slides
• Rachel Kushner, Flamethrowers I, FT II,  I-Paris Review, RK's Immersive Fiction, The Review Feud II, Rachel Kushner's Reno, L.A., and New York, See you in Havana: Rachel Kushner's Cuba; Rachel Kushner's Art Collection; "The Hard Crowd"
  - Contemporary Art & The Flamethrowers: "A Trace of a Trace: The Framing of Art & Life in RK's TF,"  Sandro Chia, Donald Judd I, DJ II, Dan Flavin I, Gordon Matta-Clark I, GM-C II, 10 Female Performance Artists You Should Know, Robert Rauschenberg I, RR II, RR: Auomobile Tire Print (1953) Michael Heizer I, MH II, Chris Burden, Shoot, Shoot II; Hannah Wilke's Naked Crusade to Subvert the Patriarchy
          The Lenna Story (women's faces & compression algorithm)
• Tony Kushner, Angels in America I, AA II, HBO AA
• Jhumpa Lahiri, JL - official site
  - Interpreter of Maladies, Study Guide & Interview, Maladies as Short Story Cycle, Food in Maladies I, II
  "Who Owns the Moon?" (> "The Third and Final Continent"), Dominca Starnone on the 20th Anniversary of Maladies, 
  - The Namesake, NEA page on The Namesake, Allegory/Postmodernism, Identity/Relationships, From Hybrids to Tourists (Critique),  L's Immigrants (MLS); Le Corbusier, Journey to the East; ( The Boston Brahmins; The New Brahmins); 
  - Unaccustomed Earth, Isaac Chotiner, Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri (Atlantic), India Wedding Band Blues (NYT Video),  Diaspora's "Dark Room";
  - The Lowland I, II, III, IV => Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others (2014); 2015 DSC Prize for Lahiri
  India's Post-Rushdie Generation (NYT), The Subcontinent (NYT 5/14); "Teach Yourself Italian"; In Other Words I, In Other Words II, III, Google Doodle: 158th Birthday of Jagadish Chandra Bose; JL on writing in Italian & "The Boundary" (text/audio); JL on Writing in Italian II (extracted from In Other Words, The Guardian), JH-interview - Incroci di civiltà 2014, JH on editing an anthology of Italian fiction (2019)
  - Whereabouts (2021), WA II; Translating Myself and Others (2022), I-Translating Myself (NPR); Translating  (NYT); "Why is Italo Calvino so Beloved Outside Italy?"
  - Roman Stories (2023, NPR), RS 2; RS 3; RS 4; 
  - JL Declines Noguchi Museum Award (9/24)
• Harper Lee,  The Watchman I, TW II, TW III, TW IV, Harper Lee, 1926-2016 I, II
• Jonathan Lethem,  A Gambler's Anatomy (2016), The Feral Detective (2018), "Fiction's New Fake Drugs: A Preliminary Pharmacopoeia" (2018), Motherless Brooklyn (Edward Norton, 2019), Jonathan Lethem on Film Adaptations (2019); The Arrest (2020)
• Ursula K. LeQuin, NYT-Obit (1/2018), "For Ursula"; The Education of Ursula LeGuin/Alfred Louis Kroeber;
• Norman Mailer, NM I, II, III, IV, V, "The White Negro" I, II, NM-Interview, Mailerspeak,  NYT-Obit, II
• Ayana Mathis, "The Prophetic - American Literature & Faith " (NYT, 3- . . / 2023)
• Peter Matthiessen, NYT-Obit and related links (April 2014), M's lifelong fascination with Bigfoot
• Colum McCann, Apeirogon: Another colonialist misstep in commercial publishing (Aljazeera)
• Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian I, CM interview/The Road, The Road (essay by Michael Chabon for NYRB), The Road, film I; Harold Bloom on Blood Meridian; Early Interviews Discovered (2022), The Passenger (2022), CC-Obiturary, What Made McCarthy such a great writer?, 
• Carson McCullers, CM at 100
• Joseph McElroy, Night Soul (2011), The Passenger & Science, "Forms of Censorship, Censorship as Form" (2018),
•  W. S. Merwin,  The Ascetic Insight of W. S. Merwin, Nach den Libellen (podcast, in German), Obit I, II, III; On My 42-Year Correspondence with WSM; Video tribute to WSM/92nd Y; Mark Olival-Bartley, A Chat with W.S. Merwin on E.A. Robinson's sonnets; Palm: All Awake in Darkness  (Immersive Art Installation, 2017)
• Arthur Miller, AM Society Website, AM American Masters, Synopses of Major Works, Descriptive Chronology of Plays, "Why I Wrote The Crucible?", None Without Sin (PBS 2003), AM NYT Obits & Reviews
• Steven Millhauser, SM-Times Topics, SM Interview (BOMB), SM Interview II, " The Ambition of the Short Story," Dangerous Laughter (10 Best Books 2008), "A Voice in the Night" (2012)
• Marianne Moore, MAP-page on MM, New Collected Poems (2017)
• Toni Morrison, NPR-interview/resource page, TM on Beloved, TM on Paradise, My Mercy I, II, God Help the Child,  Child II, The Radical Vision of TM, The Origin of Others (2017), TM - NYT-Obiturary (August 2019), TM-OZY (August 19), Jesmyn Ward on TM (August 19); "She Saved Us" -- Commemorating Toni Morrison (Nov 19); The Myth of the Flying African <=> Toni Morrison;  "Recitatif": Toni Morrison’s Only Short Story Addresses Race by Avoiding Race
• Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
• Viet Thanh Nguyen, VTN homepage; VTN in the NYT,
  - The Sympathizer I, TS II, I-NPR, I-HNN, Grove Discussion Questions, TS to be made into HBO & A24 Drama miniseries (11/22) => The Sympathizer (trailer)
  - The Refugees (2017), I-The Refugees (NPR); I-Remembering & Forgetting (2018); I-Refugees/The Displaced/"secondhand Memory" (2019);  An Other War Memorial; He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too; Paul Hoang - Decolonizing Mental Health (PBS, 2021)
  - Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
  - The Committed I (2021), The Committed II, The Committed (NPR); I-Committed, I-Committed, I-Committed, 
  - A Man of Two Faces (2023); 92NY Pulls VTN Event; <=> Salman Rushdie, Friedenspreis 2023
  -VTN, Norton Lectures (Fall 23-Spring 24)
  Asian Americans Perspective on Mickey Rooney's Yellow-Face Potrayal in Breakfast at Tiffany's; VTN, 1st Asian American Pulitzer board member
  - VTN, American Masters Podcast, VTN on Anti-Asian Violence, Refugees/Immigrants; "I Can't Forget the Lessons of Vietnam. Neither Should You" (NYT, 8/21)
  - Of related interest: A Short History of Chinese-American Women on Screen (Celeste Cg); "The Ideas that Won't Survive the Coronovirus"; US has a long history of violence against Asian Women; 10 Essential Books by Vietnamese American Writers; Tippi Hedren and the Vietnamese Nail Business I, II; 
• Tim O'Brien, TOB Homepage, TOB Interivew, Writing Vietnam, TOB, My Lai, and America, TOB in Vietnam, " The Vietnam in Me" (NYT)
• Flannery O'Connor, A Life (2009)
• Jenny Offill, Weather (2020)
• Mary Oliver I, II (1/19)
• Tillie (Lerner) Olsen, MAP-page on TO, Yonnondio, TO Interviews, "I Stand Here"
• Ruth Ozeki, Ozekiland, Putting Pen to Palm Leaf:  Buddhism & series; I-A Tale for the Time Being, Time Being; Time Being; Time Being - Reader's Guide; Time Being -- book discussion; Halving the Bones (film reviews);
  - What Does Quantum Mechanics Actually Tell Us about the World? (J Gleick); The Taisho Era: When modernity ruled Japan's masses; A Buddhist Life: A Day in the Life; Video-chatting garden eels; Asian giant hornets in Pacific Northwest; Fukushima - 10 Years After
  - The Book of Form and Emptiness (2021)
• Cynthia Ozick, Foreign Bodies (2010)
• Robert M. Pirsig, Obit--Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Sylvia Plath, MAP-on SP, Voices& Visions, The Bell Jar I, The Bell Jar II, SP-DE, Plath & Father, SP-New Biographies; Red Comet (2020); SP's secret miscarriage (2022); Where to Start With: Sylvia Plath (Guardian 2023)
• Jackson Pollock, JP at the NGA, JP in Guggenheim, JP Paintings
• Richard Powers, RichardPowers.net, RP, "The Book of Me"
  - Three Farmers . . . : Den "Jungbauern" des August Sanders auf der Spur (FAZ, April 2014), August Sander: der Chronist des Alltaeglichen 
  - Galatea 2.2: Essays, Reviews, Interviews, Another Brief Interview (G 2.2), G 2.2: Probing the Posthuman,  Cognitive Science Dictionary, Gerald Edelman & Neural Darwinism (NPG Interview), Go Cognitive,  V.S. Ramachandran, 3 Clues to Understanding your Brain (Ted Talk), Your Brain on Metaphors; Speak, Memory -- AI Memorials (The Verge), Why a Computer will never be truly conscious;  Neural Networks, and Energy Consumption; Could an A.I. Chatbot Rewrite My Novel? (2022); ChatGPT, The End of High-School English (Atlantic, Dec 2022)
  - The Echomaker: NYTBR-The Echo Maker, EM-Roundtable, EM Brief Interview, New Yorker on RP, Search Engine of the Brain (NYT), Astrocytes, Einstein's Brain, and The Other Brain, DNA Sequencing and Data Storage (NYT), I-RP, Conjunctions 34
  - Generosity: The Science of Generosity;  Nicholas Carr, AI - The Ziggy Stardust Syndrome (2/2018). I-Studio 360; 
  - Orfeo (NYT), I-Orfeo/music
  - The Overstory I, OS II,  I-RP, OS III (+ other links); OS IV, V (The Atlantic) By the Book (2019); Tom LeClair, OS (April 18); Barbara Kingsolver/Richard Powers;  How writing The Overstory changed R Powers' Life, The Atlantic (April 2019); RP on kinship, community, and consciousness (podcast, Feb 2020);  Suzanne Simard, "How trees talk to each other" - TED talk (June 2016); GARN, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature; CELDF, Advancing the Rights of Nature ; I-Radio West; I-RP, Conjunctions 70; Tons of Acorns. It must be mast year; RP recommends 26 books on trees (including links, PBS); Stressed Plants Making Sounds; Five Years Ago, I wrote a Fictional Disaster that is playing out in Real Time; 
  - Bewilderment I, B II, RP on B I, I-Bewilderment, I-Bewilderment II, I- Bewilderment III, I-Bewilderment IV
  - of general interest (not only for Richard Powers): Neurotechnology and Mental Privacy (2023); Stephen Jay Gould, In Gratuitous Battle (review, sort of, of Edward O. Wilson's Consilience, 1998): Evolutionary Biology meets the (Scientific) Humanities . . . :);  David Sinclair & Anti-Aging Pill; 
  - PR profile / Bewilderment (2021) ; RP's NEW BOOK -- on viruses, I-GQ; Bewilderment I, Bewilderment II, RP on Bewilderment (podcast), 
  - Playground (2024)
• Thomas Pynchon [would require a separate page -- for a future star date ].  Here, Against the Day (Audiofiles, Friedrich Kittler, 2007); Robert Harris, V2 (2020)
• Ayn Rand, I,  II
• Adrienne Rich, see also Poetry Foundation-AR,  Essential Essays (2018)
• Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140 I, II, Interivew-NY2140; A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth; 
• Phillip Roth,  NY-Times Featured Author, PR Society, PR at The Guardian, A Plot Against America(Review), I Married a Communist (Review), PR on Goodbye Columbus and Portnoy's Complaint (NPR audio), Everyman (AS Byatt review), PR on Everyman, PR on Exit Ghost/Nathan Zuckerman (NPR audio), Indignation (NYT), Indignation (Film 2016), Plot Against America (NPR, audio), The Humbling I, Nemesis, Philip Roth: Unmasked (Documentary 2013),  I-My Life as a Writer ,  Fifty-Five Years of Reading PR, Do we Know Phillip Roth?, American Pastoral (Film 2016); Retiring from Writing, 2012; 
  - I-NYT, 2018; PR - NYT Obit, What PR Didn't Know About Women , PR on Fresh Air I + II (audio), A Jewish anti-Semitic writer?, NYT-PR Page; HBO's The Plot Against America (3/2020), Even in Retirement, . . . (5/2020); The Vying Animal (review of biography, 3/21); The Biography (review by Cynthia Ozick, 4/21); Sexual Assault Allegations against PR biographer (4/21)
• J. D. Salinger, NYT-Obit, JDS--Escape Artist, J.D. Salinger Going Digital, J.D. Salinger Unbound, When JDS Lost the Girl and went to War, JDS: Great Writer, Lousy Father
• George Saunders, NYT-Lincoln;  Lincoln in the Bardo (Interview); Adam Kelly on Lincoln;  Lincoln and the Embalming Industry :);  Conversation: Jennifer Egan & George Saunders; "Escape from Spiderhead" (2010) => Spiderhead (Netflix, 2022)
• Ruta Sepetys, 
  => of interest: The Kremlin is Rewriting Wikipedia (Economist 2024); The 1941 NKVD Prison Massacres in Western Ukraine; 
  Thomas Sgovio, Thomas Sgovio Art
• Clint Smith, CS at the The Atlantic, 
• Wallace Stegner, WS and the Conflicted Soul of the West (June 2020)
• William Styron, NYT Obit & Reviews, The Confessions 40 Years After
• Amy Tan,  Where the Past Begins (2017, memoir)
• Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo Journalism, HST on R Nixon, HST NYT Obit & Reviews
• David Treuer, Adrift Betweeen My Two Parents' America (2022)
• Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun I, II (2010), Metallica, One (1989); Trumbo (2015, film)
  WW I Watches, Watches II
• John Updike, NYT-Obit & Links, NYT-Topic, NPR Obit & Links, Remembering John Updike, Rabbit Run (Diane Rehm), Rabbit Redux & White Working Class Angst/Election 2012
• Jeff VanderMeer, Borne
• William T. Vollmann,  The Dying Grass, Carbon Ideologies (2018)
• Kurt Vonnegut, The Vonnegut Veb, Slaughterhouse 5 (NPR Audio discussion), NYT-Obit, Look at the Birdie, KV Blog (focus on locations in V's work), So It Goes (Bio 2011), Letters (Oct 12), Complete Stories (2017);  The Moral Clarity of Slaughterhouse 5 - 50 Years (March 2019); 
• Alice Walker & Colm Toibin, and Their Trail of Words; Gathering Blossoms Under Fire (2022)/"No Regrets"; 
• David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, IJ II, Infinite Jest at 20,  "E Unibus Pluram:  Television and U.S. Fiction, What to Leave In, What to Leave Out: My Conversations with DFW, Infinite Jerk + NYT review of In the Land of Men (DFW and Adrienne Miller); 
• Jesmyn Ward, DQ-Unburied,  JW on Unburied (PBS), On Witness and Respair (9-20),
  => "Inside Mississippi's notorious Parchman prison"
  JW with Barack Obama on A Promised Land (2020), Salvage the Bones  and Book Bans (MSNBC Book Club, 1-24)
• Andy Warhol,  The Warhol, W Foundation, AW
• Wendy Wasserstein, NY-Times Obituary, Appreciation, and Reviews
• Robert Penn Warren, [to be developed],  All the King's Men at 70
• Charles Webb, Elusive Author of The Graduate, dies (6/20)
• James Welch, JW: Five Fast Fact You Need to Know, Google: James Welch's 76th Birthday; Winter in the Blood I (2014 film), II
• August Wilson, AW at Dartmouth, AW: Writing the Blues, etc.,  NPR AW site (audio), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Play Guide,  Black Bottom dance 1919/1927; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom I (2020, film, last film with Chadwick Boseman); MRBB  II & August Wilson; MRBB III; MRBB IV; Giving Voice (2020, documentary); The Piano Lesson (2024, film adaptation)
• Colson Whitehead, "The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01" (2001).  The Underground Railroad (2016), The Nickel Boys (2019), CW on NB, CW profile, The essential CW, CW-60 Minutes (2021); I-"An Actual Train System (NPR 2016); I-NPR 2 (2016);  I-UGRR 2; I-CW & Boris Kachka, Vulture (2018); I-Barry Jenkins on UGRR (VF, 4/21), I-Barry Jenkins (NPR, 5/21), UGR & language; CW Looks Back at the UGRR (7/24)
  - Harlem Shuffle (2021), HS II,  HS - interview with Terry Gross
  - Crook Manifesto (2023)
  - Oliver Munday, cover designer of UGRR, Oliver Munday 2,
  - Barry Jenkins, UR I, UR II, UR - novel/miniseries I; UR - novel/miniseries II; UR - novel/miniseries III; CW on UR series (plus other links; Sight & Sound), UR series (summary)
  Of interest: Indian Removal (PBS, plus useful links); Cherokee Removal;  Who gets Cherokee Citizenship? ; Mothers of Gynecology <=> UGRR; 
• Tom Wolfe [to be developed], "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast" I, II,   NYT Obit, Elevating Journalism, TW Appraisal, TW the cartoonist,
• Richard Wright, RW - short biography, The Hammer and the Nail: RW's modern condition, Island Hallucination; Native Son (film 2019, Sundance); 
• Richard Wright I, II: Black Boy, James Baldwin on Native Son; The Man Who Lived Underground (2021), Underground II, Underground III
• Malcolm X, MX I, MX II, Keenan Norris, "Dr. Ben Carson, Thug Life, and Macolm X," LABR; Blood Brothers: Malcolm X and Muhammed Ali
• Qui Xiaolong, Q & A Shanghai Redemption
• Yamashita, Karen Tei,  KTY I, Interview I, Interview II, Interview III, I Hotel
  - Disturbed, "Another Way to Die"; Coke & Orange Juice :)
  
  last updated, 10 December 2024