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Included here is an audio excerpt from John Irving’s novel The Last Chairlift.
Read MoreThis May, John Irving was awarded the Medal of Honor for Literature by the National Arts Club. The Medal of Honor is a prestigious award presented to the most influential artists in their fields. In a press release issued by the NAC, Mr. Irving gave a nod to past recipients of the Gold Medal in…
Read More“The World According to Garp is, to me, the best-written example of whatever elusive literary quality makes a human being capable of sobbing and laughing simultaneously. Those are each extraordinarily difficult emotions to elicit; to do so in tandem is remarkable, but requires the kind of evocation that critics might call outright provocation instead. They…
Read MoreI’ve been busy. I don’t always choose to be working on two things at once, but sometimes that’s how it turns out. I’m never writing more than one novel at a time, but it has happened before (and will happen again) that I’m writing a novel concurrently with either a screenplay or a teleplay. I…
Read MoreAvenue of Mysteries is available as an audiobook, too. Hear an excerpt with reader Armando Durán. As Irving says of Durán, “My wife Janet and I loved his reading of Gabriel García Márquez’s ‘Love in the Time of Cholera.’ We love his voice, and the way he interprets the dialogue of characters in novels, especially.”…
Read MoreThe new novel from John Irving is now available for order. You can read John’s note and short excerpt here.
Read MoreTake a look at the first trailer for John Irving’s upcoming Avenue of Mysteries, available on November 3rd.
Read MoreJohn Irving reading an excerpt from his essay “Cat Without Eyes,” published in Brick’s Issue 95.
Read MoreSimon and Schuster have included an extended excerpt from In One Person in their free sampler.The books and authors presented in this sampler also include Carry the One by Carol Anshaw, Gold by Chris Cleave, author of Little Bee, In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner, The Twelve Rooms of the Nile by Enid Shomer, and The Green Shore by Natalie Bakopoulos.
Read MoreA documentary about John Irving has just been released from German filmmaker André Schaefer, called “John Irving und wie er die Welt sieht” (“The World According to John Irving”).
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