Acknowledging that writing is a solitary occupation, but publishing is a business based on celebrity, Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky writes about the motivations of writers in The Kenyon Review:
Doris Lessing complained to the BBC this week that winning the Nobel Prize for Literature has been “a bloody disaster” to her career as a writer. She told Radio [...]
Reporters sans frontières (Reporters without Borders) latest press freedom index shows North Korea, Turkmenistan, and Eritrea as the worst violators of press freedom. They remain with Burma, Cuba and China at the bottom of the list.
France, the United States and Japan slip further into the repression of media criticism, while Mauritania and Haiti gain [...]
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