Michael Washburn

New York

Journalist, Fiction Writer, and Poet at Freelance

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Articles

Sympathy for the Unpublished Young White Male Author | National Review

2 weeks ago | nationalreview.com | Michael Washburn
The Cancellation of Salman Rushdie

3 weeks ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Michael Washburn

Salman Rushdie is out as Claremont McKenna College’s commencement speaker, the school’s newspaper announced in a May 14 story. Rushdie did not give a reason for withdrawing, according to the article, but earlier coverage leaves little doubt that many people were furious over the invitation of a politically incorrect figure.
Conduit Books Bucks the Trend

4 weeks ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Michael Washburn

Jude Cook’s decision to launch Conduit Books, a U.K.-based publishing venture with an explicit focus on male authors, has set off a torrent of online snark from commenters who cannot fathom why anyone would take the interests and concerns of men these days seriously, given the unfinished task of tearing down structures of power and privilege. Admittedly, not all the reactions have been hostile.
Book and Film Globe

4 weeks ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Michael Washburn

A new publishing house wants to focus on male authors
Book and Film Globe

1 month ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Neal Pollack |William Schwartz |Michael Washburn

Animated Netflix show tries to be ‘Rick and Morty’ but ends up at sub-‘Family Guy’ levels
Book and Film Globe

1 month ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Carlos Flores |Michael Washburn

The last Titan of the Latin American literary boom has fallen
Book and Film Globe

1 month ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Michael Washburn

Novelists of our time, looking for subject matter, might train their sights on the legal, political, financial, and cultural structures that insulate a small number of the fortunate from the consequences of misdeeds. But anyone who sets out to write a book about it all will need to ask how the new work could in any way improve upon a novel published a hundred years ago, on April 10, 1925: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
Book and Film Globe

1 month ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Michael Washburn

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s critique of the lifestyles of the rich and infamous is as relevant as ever
Can Anyone Save the Mél?

2 months ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Michael Washburn

The Maison des écrivains et de la littérature, popularly known as the “Mél,” has long been a beloved fixture of Paris’s sixteenth arrondissement. This cultural institution has played a pedagogic role since its founding in March 1986, helping foster literacy and love for reading among students, providing resources for writers and scholars, and sponsoring authors’ residencies in France and abroad, among other activities.
Book and Film Globe

2 months ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Michael Washburn

President Donald Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against CBS Broadcasting over the selective editing of a 60 Minutes interview last fall with then-candidate Kamala Harris threatens to derail one of the biggest media and entertainment deals of all time, the $8 billion merger of Skydance Media and Paramount Global, the parent corporation of CBS.