Tobias Wolff

Andromeda: Woody Allen's Manhattan and the Self-Critical Creative Process

Watch Woody Allen vs Manhattan on PBS. See more from AMERICAN MASTERS. If it had been up to Woody Allen, audiences never would have seen “Manhattan.” He was unhappy with the film — now widely considered his best, an iconic black-and-white late 1970s portrait of New York, paired with a gorgeous soundtrack (Gershwin, for starters) […]

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Andromeda: Orphaned or Estranged — How Writers Feel About Their Past Work

“All novels are failed novels,” visiting writer Dani Shapiro told writers this past weekend at the 49 Writers Tutka Bay Retreat. I completely agree. And I’ve always found both inspiration and consolation from that Samuel Beckett quote: “No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” What ends up on the page is usually more than

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