Doris Lessing's Nobel acceptance speech: A Hunger for Books

Kurt Vonnegut, gone "where everything was beautiful and nothing hurt." We miss you so.
Read Slaughterhouse Five and this.

A worthy tribute to the greatest literary journalist of our time, Ryszard Kapuscinski, whose work has meant so much to so many. He will be greatly missed.

The Nieman Watchdog site, affiliated with the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, publishes a call for an independent inquiry into US journalism in the lead-up to the Iraq War.

My Father's Suitcase, Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk's Nobel Prize lecture, 2006.

Why I Write by George Orwell, published in 1946, on making political writing into art.

Interview with UC Berkeley's Dean of Journalism, Orville Schell, on the state of the media.

Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties written in 1935 by Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956).

WomenTK examines the ratio of male to female writers in American “general interest” magazines from September 2005 to September 2006.