Robert B. Thompson
Style
Articles by Robert B. Thompson
Verse of the Turtle (July 17, 2008)
Bittersweet Fruit (July 7, 2008)
Bewick Biographer Wins Literary Prize (April 18, 2008)
Junot Díaz Wins Fiction Pulitzer; Tracy Letts Gets Prize for Drama (April 8, 2008)
The Kings of Fiction (April 7, 2008)
Behind Every Great Man . . . (March 13, 2008)
Things Fall Into Place (March 9, 2008)
True or False: Book Publishers Can Avoid the Agony of Deceit (March 5, 2008)
Anne Enright, 'Gathering' A Following (February 16, 2008)
Challenging History (February 7, 2008)
A New, and Vast, Frame of Reference (January 21, 2008)
Drawn From Her Own Life (January 20, 2008)
Children's Book Award Winners Break The Mold (January 15, 2008)
Popular Children's Author Named Reading Ambassador (January 3, 2008)
A Northern Light (December 26, 2007)
A New Shelf Life Begins (December 11, 2007)
Leaping at The Chance For More Readers? (December 1, 2007)
Was This 'Discovery!' Meant to Be Found? (November 29, 2007)
A Troubling Case of Readers' Block (November 19, 2007)
Johnson's 'Tree of Smoke' Wins National Book Award (November 15, 2007)
Army of One (November 12, 2007)
New Chapters In the Story of Africa's People Are Honored (November 3, 2007)
Turning Novel Ideas Into Inhabitable Worlds (October 30, 2007)
Trenches to Trench Coats: Summing Up Sebastian Faulks (October 25, 2007)
Book Festival Surprises? Funny You Should Ask. (October 1, 2007)
Jenna's Story: A New Author Steps Forth (September 29, 2007)
The Outsider Is In: An Immigrant's Stories (September 20, 2007)
Author Dave Eggers Cops $250,000 Heinz Award (September 12, 2007)
The Human Zoo Of a Writer Uncaged (August 9, 2007)
Was the Boy Wizard the Charm That Made Children's Books Fly? (July 19, 2007)
The Wizardly Editor Who Caught the Golden Snitch (July 11, 2007)
Imperial Washington (June 30, 2007)
Take Him to His Readers: Booksellers Trade Paper for Film to Put Author on Tour (June 14, 2007)
The Height Of Gossip (June 12, 2007)
The Skim Trade (June 4, 2007)
Michael Ondaatje, In Peak Form (May 30, 2007)
Writing Under The Influence (May 16, 2007)
Self Taut (May 13, 2007)
Crossing The Pond With Poetry (May 11, 2007)
Tale of Folk Hero Wins New Award For Arts Writing (April 26, 2007)
Cormac McCarthy And Ornette Coleman Bracket an Eclectic Field (April 17, 2007)
Moms de Plume (April 16, 2007)
So He Goes, Not Quietly (April 13, 2007)
A Writer Crosses Over (April 8, 2007)
For Bookstores, a Real Page-Turner (March 19, 2007)
Indelible Images of a Place Unseen (March 1, 2007)
Jane Smiley, Solving Puzzles in the Hills (February 20, 2007)
Cutting to the Core (January 29, 2007)
'Lucky' Winner: Newbery, Caldecott Awards Announced (January 23, 2007)
Literary Ambition Without Borders (January 22, 2007)
Story of My Wife (December 31, 2006)
Kids' Books That Never Grow Old (December 19, 2006)
Publisher Is Fired on the Heels of O.J. Fiasco (December 16, 2006)
Peace Provocateur (December 10, 2006)
A Heartbreaking Work of Fiction (November 28, 2006)
News Corp. Pulls Plug On O.J. Book, Fox Special (November 21, 2006)
National Book Awards Honor 'Echo Maker,' 'Worst Hard Time' (November 16, 2006)
His Life as A Writer (November 12, 2006)
Kiran Desai, Too Busy To Rest on Her Laurels (November 6, 2006)
A Complete Picture (October 19, 2006)
Turkish Novelist Wins Nobel Prize (October 13, 2006)
Mountain Man (October 2, 2006)
Watching the Blurbs Fly Off the Page (October 1, 2006)
From Pages of Fiction, A Volume of Sad Truth (September 27, 2006)
Science And Salvation (September 20, 2006)
A Voice in the Afghan Wilderness (September 19, 2006)
His Bottom Line: Educating the World's Kids (September 9, 2006)
Search Me? (August 13, 2006)
A Murky Picture, Developed And Enlarged (July 10, 2006)
The Changing Face of American Portraiture (June 25, 2006)