After Brown, I went to Duke…– Nathaniel Philbrick
After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad’s an English professor. After a year there, I was like,
After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad’s an English professor. After a year there, I was like,
Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel.
I’m an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, ‘Lonesome Dove,’ Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.
I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the
I’ve been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to
My enthusiasm for L.A. stems from my father, who was a lecturer in American literature at the University of Birmingham. Through his work, our family
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice
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