Among literary journalists George Plimpton is so unusual that he marches not just to a different drummer but more nearly to a different orchestra. His reputation rests on a unique assortment of accomp...
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George Plimpton is one of America's most respected literary journalists, but he is perhaps best known for his sports books and essays. No other writer has taken more to heart sportswriter Paul Gallico...
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It has been almost two months since Norman Mailer died. "Before that he lived a big, loud life, which he spent asking questions, accumulating bruises and setting all kinds of people’s hair on...
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Rassim al-JumailiBAGHDAD (AP) — Rassim al-Jumaili, a veteran Iraqi comedian who left his homeland for Syria after the U.S. invasion and played a sarcastic dictator in his final role earlier t...
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We consume. We rarely think of how food or energy is created or how it gets to where we purchase it. We may see a truck, but we rarely think about large ships or the trains that deliver AmericaR...
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We consume. We rarely think of how food or energy is created or how it gets to where we purchase it. We may see a truck, but we rarely think about large ships or the trains that deliver AmericaR...
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EXIT GHOSTBy Philip RothHoughton Mifflin, 304 pages, $26
What to do when the best living American novelist writes a weak book? The New Yorker solved the problem (in the Oct. 1 issue) with an extend...
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John Hodgman was drinking a smoothie inside the cavernous Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Soon the 32-year-old would switch to rye whiskey. It was 7:30 p.m., and the place was fillin...
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When the board of directors of The Paris Review named New Yorker staff writer Philip Gourevitch as the new editor of the literary quarterly last week, a flicker of surprise rippled among the writer...
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Consider the Books Editor. Pulled in different directions by aesthetic judgments, commercial considerations and petty practicalities, this particular B.E., by nature idealistic (he’s not in i...
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George (Ames) Plimpton
Mailer's Archive Opens in Texas
