“My bladder was beginning to be insistent, too, and though I was armed with my Policeman’s Friend and would have ordinarily have let fly...

Glad you asked: Everything about that behemoth was an anachronism—hand choke, starter button on the floor, a switch instead of a key, ...

From a 1974 interview between James Day and “Wally” Stegner. The whole thing is fascinating, but the really good stuff starts at about the ...

I really enjoyed this one. We’ve talked about the sentence level writing here . It’s clever, it’s funny, and for an aspiring writer...

There is a famous account , perhaps apocryphal, of a visit made by a student to Vladimir Nabokov’s office at Cornell. The student decla...

At the suggestion of the one and only Tucker McCann , I am working my way through Wallace Stegner’s last novel,  Crossing to Safety . ...

Like Wallace Thurman and Neal Cassady, I was born in Salt Lake City. I went to the same high school as another Wallace, Wallace Stegner.  ...

In case you hadn’t noticed, the publishing world is ga-ga over E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey , a book that was born as an erotica fan-...

One of the best books I read last year was Wallace Stegner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning magnum opus Angle of Repose . But even though I loved t...

I’ve talked about what makes a line of prose jump off the page at me here . I don’t necessarily make highlights as I read, but I’ll dog-ear...