Phillip Roth on writing

From a retrospective about Roth

The crude cliché is that the writer is solving the problem of his life in his books. Not at all. What he's doing is taking something that interests him in life and then solving the problem of the book - which is, How do you write about this?

Link thanks to supergee.

Phillip Roth on writing

From a retrospective about Roth

The crude cliché is that the writer is solving the problem of his life in his books. Not at all. What he's doing is taking something that interests him in life and then solving the problem of the book - which is, How do you write about this?

Link thanks to supergee.

Gay Republicans

How the Republican party has alienated maybe a million gay voters in order to attract an estimated four million evangelical people who didn't vote last time. (I have no idea how you compute the odds for getting non-voters to show up--it seems as though it would be easier to get votes from people who are already in the habit of voting.)

Link found at twistedchick.

For more, listen to the Big Tent show from This American Life--it looks as though a great many Republicans are less committed against gay marriage than you might think.

Gay Republicans

How the Republican party has alienated maybe a million gay voters in order to attract an estimated four million evangelical people who didn't vote last time. (I have no idea how you compute the odds for getting non-voters to show up--it seems as though it would be easier to get votes from people who are already in the habit of voting.)

Link found at twistedchick.

For more, listen to the Big Tent show from This American Life--it looks as though a great many Republicans are less committed against gay marriage than you might think.