How I Write: Mike Mullane
Since when does a former space-shuttle astronaut show a natural
narrative voice and poetically capture the beauty of outer space? And since
when does an astronaut candidly admit the fears he felt on the launch pad?
For readers of his memoir, Riding Rockets, Mike Mullane shows a lot
of the right stuff ? literarily speaking. "He?s a natural when it comes to voice
and narrative," says Brant Rumble, his editor at Scribner's....
The Politics of Fiction
Nowadays, the intersection of literature and politics yields primarily
memoirs and nonfiction, as evidenced by books that have ruled the best-seller lists, such as What?s the Matter With Kansas: How
Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank,
by
Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Al Franken's The Truth (With
Jokes). For some fiction writers, it?s a sorry state of affairs...
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