21. McEwan, Ian | Authors | Guardian Unlimited Books ian mcewan (1948). I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,-108,00.html

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22. Ian McEwan By Robert Birnbaum - The Morning News ian mcewan, as the son of a British sergeant major of Scots descent, had a typical, welltraveled, army childhood. A self-described “very mediocre pupil” http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/birnbaum_v/ian_mcewan.php

Sunday, January 27, 2008 Currently: waking up more viscerally angry about Bush than ever Digest: Birnbaum v. Ian McEwan Saturday about taking the time to do your thing, the changing face of literary culture, and how everybody really can write a novel. var articleId = '4372'; var articleUrl = 'http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/birnbaum_v/ian_mcewan.php'; Email this Save this ABOUT THE AUTHOR TMN Contributing Writer Robert Birnbaum a bookish journalist , was born in Germany, grew up in Chicago, and lived for too many years in Boston. He is editor-at-large at Identitytheory.com and has also lived in New Hampshire. He recently returned to the Boston area with his blonde Labrador, Rosie Just Talking: How to do Things with Words . He may be found in print here and here , in Bark magazine , and in the Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers , speaking with the non-pareil Jamaica Kincaid. And here too Duendepublishing@gmail.com Also by Robert Birnbaum Arthur Phillips (Birnbaum v.) Nonfiction Books (Of Recent Note) Thomas Mallon (Birnbaum v.)

23. The TNR Q&A The film adaptation of English writer ian mcewan s prizewinning novel Atonement opened last month to widespread critical acclaim. http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=2cee28d1-869d-447a-8e83-4e046f5ad6df

24. Ian McEwan Did Nothing Wrong, Say The Big-shot Novelists. - By Jack Shafer - Sla Depending on your views of what the word authorship means, novelist ian mcewan either plagiarized, copied, borrowed from, looted, was inspired by, http://www.slate.com/id/2155175/

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25. CRITICAL MASS Critical Outakes Ian McEwan Critical Outakes ian mcewan. Q What is your style of composition. Saturday feels like it unfolds in a series of set pieces. Do you know where they are http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2006/06/critical-outakes-ian-mcewan.html

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26. Ian McEwan - Authors - Writing And Writers - Books - New York Times The British novelist talks about why atheists crave atonement, his longlost brother and Martin Amis’s beef with radical Islam. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/magazine/02wwln-Q4-t.html

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27. "Atonement" By Ian McEwan - Salon.com Mar 21, 2002 ian mcewan s latest novel is a dark, sleek trap of a book. It lures its readers in with the promise of a morality tale set in an English http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/03/21/mcewan/

Search: Salon The Web Sunday, Jan 27, 2008 Books Comics Community Life ... Log in "Atonement" by Ian McEwan The author of "Amsterdam" explores the devastating consequences of a young girl's lie. By Laura Miller Pages 1 Share Digg it Del.icio.us My Yahoo ... RSS Font: S S+ S++ The house belongs to the Tallis family, and the first member introduced is the soon-to-be criminal, 13-year-old Briony, who is writing a play to be performed by herself and her three visiting cousins. Her mother Emily lies upstairs, nursing one of her chronic migraines and waiting for her husband to phone to tell her he's spending the night in London. Her restless older sister, Cecilia, frets about the unaccountable new awkwardness in her relationship to Robbie Turner, son of the family's cleaning woman and her childhood playmate. Everyone awaits the arrival of the adored eldest, Leon, who's bringing along his friend, Paul Marshall, an industrialist with big plans to sell candy-coated chocolate bars to the army in the increasingly likely event of England declaring war on Germany. At first McEwan unspools the action languidly, adopting the viewpoint of several different characters as they move through the sultry summer day and toward the fateful, moonless night. There's fussing about the dinner, the concoction of what sounds like the most disgusting cocktail ever devised, lost socks, a broken vase and, behind all this, large, ominous emotions shifting their way to the surface. The most violent acts of the day happen offstage, so to speak, but the most enduringly destructive one is a lie Briony tells, a lie that will ruin two lives and overshadow her own for decades.

28. The Believer - Zadie Smith Talks With Ian McEwan I have often thought ian mcewan a writer as unlike me as it is possible to be. His prose is controlled, careful, and powerfully concise; he is eloquent on http://www.believermag.com/issues/200508/?read=interview_mcewan

29. BBC News | ARTS | McEwan: Enduring Talent ian mcewan is one of Britain s most celebrated authors with his eminently readable works of often dark imagination. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1550355.stm

CATEGORIES TV RADIO COMMUNICATE ... INDEX SEARCH You are in: Entertainment: Arts Front Page World ... AudioVideo SERVICES Daily E-mail News Ticker Mobiles/PDAs Feedback ... Low Graphics Tuesday, 18 September, 2001, 15:21 GMT 16:21 UK McEwan: Enduring talent McEwan won the 1998 Booker with Amsterdam At 52, Ian Russell McEwan is one of Britain's most distinguished writers. He has won the Booker prize, The Somerset Maugham Award for a first book and the Whitbread Prize for Fiction for The Child in Time. Atonement has been acclaimed as a "masterpiece" The reviews for his Booker shortlisted novel Atonement variously call it "enveloping" (Evening Standard), a "superb achievement" (The Sunday Times) and "dazzling" (The Sunday Telegraph). Born in 1948 in Aldershot, Surrey, he spent his childhood in Singapore and North Africa where his father - a soldier - was posted. After studying English Literature at the University of Sussex, graduating in 1970, he undertook an MA degree at the University of East Anglia. One of his teachers was the novelist Malcolm Bradbury on the now famous creative writing course he set up at East Anglia.

30. Bold Type: Interview With Ian McEwan The author talks about his work to online literary magazine Bold Type. http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0398/mcewan/interview.html

A recurring theme in your work seems to be that of ordinary lives that are rocked by the unthinkable. What inspires you to place your characters in these situations? Moments of crisis or danger represent a means of exploring charactersthe strengths and defects of personalitywhile at the same time offering a degree of narrative interest: it's a matter of having your cake and eating it. In both this novel, and your last novel, Black Dogs, you focus on the conflict between the spiritual or emotional and the rational sides of human behavior. What interests you about this struggle? Which characteristic do you most identify with? Even for atheists, the question of faith has to be an issue of importance. I regard irrational belief as being the essence of faith. It's also an enduring quality of being humanperhaps even written into our natures. No amount of science or logic will shift it. We are all magical thinkers one way or another. Your books suggest a strong grasp of psychology; what is your background? I assume you're asking about my education. I studied literature at university. I've always had a strong interest in science. What I know about psychology I've learned like everybody else: by making mistakes.

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32. An Interview With Ian McEwan An Interview with ian mcewan. The following is an abbreviated version of an interview that ran on the NPR affiliate KUSP on February 16th, 1998 and 1200 pm http://www.capitolabookcafe.com/andrea/mcewan.html

CAPITOLA BOOK CAFÉ 1475 41st AVENUE, CAPITOLA, CA 95010 USA Phone: 408-462-4415 Fax: 408-462-2536 An Interview with Ian McEwan The following is an abbreviated version of an interview that ran on the NPR affiliate KUSP on February 16th, 1998 and 12:00 pm. Eric Schoeck is the Capitola Book Café Events Coordinator. E.S.: Several of the reviews I've read have targeted the opening scene of Enduring Love as particularly compelling. Have you been hearing this from people as well? I.M.: I came across a journal entry I wrote about six months before I began working on Enduring Love . My journal tends to be full of little exhortations, and it said, "write a first chapter that would be the equivalent of a highly addictive drug." I did want to have the reader hit the ground running... E.S.: So to speak... I.M.: So to speak. In fact, one of the other chapters was originally the opening. It's a chapter where someone makes an attempt on the life of the narrator in a restaurant. E.S.: Which comes much later. I.M.:

33. Mind Hacks: Enduring Error The BBC has a curious article about author ian mcewan that makes an interesting error about Link to Salon article ian mcewan fools British shrinks . http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2007/11/enduring_error.html

Blog Book Links Main November 28, 2007 Enduring error: The BBC has a curious article about author Ian McEwan that makes an interesting error about his novel Enduring Love . In fact, the truth is much more subtle. The article notes that: McEwan made up a medical condition for the stalker and wrote a spoof article from a psychiatric journal explaining the illness and included it in the book. His description of De Clerambault's Syndrome fooled reviewers and psychiatrists alike. In fact, De Clerambault's Syndrome (where someone has the delusional belief that another person is in love with them) is well known in the medical literature and McEwan's description is quite accurate. Nevertheless, his book concludes with what looks like a reprint of an article from the British Review of Psychiatry that describes a case study which the book seems to be based upon. Although also fiction (the British Review of Psychiatry doesn't exist), its style is convincing and it's properly referenced with studies from the real medical literature. So convincing, in fact, that it

34. The Reading Experience: Ian McEwan If I were to write a straightup review of ian mcewan s On Chesil Beach that expressed my honest reaction to the book, I actually couldn t improve on Steven http://noggs.typepad.com/the_reading_experience/2007/11/if-i-were-to-wr.html

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35. The Paris Review - The Art Of Fiction No. 173 mcewan. Yes. I was still interested in writing at the edge of human experience. To read the rest of Adam Begley s interview with ian mcewan, http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/393

Return to Interview Archive Index IAN MCEWAN The Art of Fiction No. 173 Interviewed by Adam Begley Issue 162, Summer 2002 Purchase this issue View a manuscript page INTERVIEWER The Child in Time McEWAN and ideas. I developed a taste for these various elements over a period of time. In 1986 I was at the Adelaide literary festival where I read the scene from The Child in Time in which the little girl is stolen from a supermarket. I had finished a first draft the week before and I wanted to try it out. As soon as I was done, Robert Stone got to his feet and delivered a most passionate speech. It really seemed to come from the heart. He said, "Why do we do this? Why do writers do this, and why do readers want it? Why do we reach into ourselves to find the worst thing that can be thought? Literature, especially contemporary literature, keeps reaching for the worst possible case." I still don't have a clear answer. I fall back on the notion of the test or investigation of character, and of our moral nature. As James famously asked, What is incident but the illustration of character? Perhaps we use these worst cases to gauge our own moral reach. And perhaps we need to play out our fears within the safe confines of the imaginary, as a form of hopeful exorcism.

36. Saturday - Ian McEwan A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Saturday by ian mcewan. http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/mcewani/saturday.htm

A Literary Saloon Site of Review. Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Contents: Main the Best the ... Links to e-mail us: support the site buy us books ! Amazon wishlist the complete review - fiction Saturday by Ian McEwan general information review summaries our review links ... about the author Title: Saturday Author: Ian McEwan Genre: Novel Written: Length: 287 pages Availability: Saturday - US Saturday - UK Saturday - Canada Samedi - France Saturday - Deutschland - Return to top of the page - Our Assessment: A- : artfully wrought character study but not more See our review for fuller assessment. Review Summaries Source Rating Date Reviewer Christian Science Monitor Yvonne Zipp Commentary Sam Munson Daily Telegraph A Caroline Moore The Economist Entertainment Weekly B Jennifer Reese Le Figaro Financial Times A+ Henry Hitchings The Guardian Mark Lawson The Guardian Elena Seymenliyska The Independent Marek Kohn Independent on Sunday A+ James Urquhart The Nation Lee Siegel Uwe Pralle The New Criterion Max Watman The New Republic A James Wood New Statesman Sophie Harrison New York Keith Gessen The NY Rev. of Books

37. Village Voice > Film > Atonement: Hollywood Pleasantly Screws Up Ian McEwan By E Atonement Hollywood Pleasantly Screws Up ian mcewan. Film adaptation of ian mcewan s Atonement an unwelcome bodiceripper. by Ella Taylor http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0749,taylor,78518,20.html

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38. Ian McEwan: The TNR Q&A :: Sam Harris Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith, writes about the link between religious faith and violence. http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/ian-mcewan-the-tnr-qa/

Sam Harris Home Books Letter to a Christian Nation ... Your email address: RSS Feed Isaac Chotiner January 11, 2008 Was it hard to watch Atonement be adapted to film by other people? Did you feel possessive? You mentioned Bellow. Who are the writers you are particularly drawn to now, people you have stuck with? What are your online habits? Do you surf the web? Well, I like Edge very much, Arts and Letters is a great resource for me, and then the whole slew of American magazines. I like that tradition-The New Republic, etc. I get them now quite regularly. Do you read any online reviews? var sc_project=1800205; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_partition=16; var sc_security="3e220e56"; sIFR.replaceElement("h2", "/modern.swf", "#474747"); sIFR.replaceElement("h3", "/modern.swf", "#595959", null, null, null, 0, 0, 0, 0);

39. The Blue Collar Illustrator Now, to finish my whiskey, smoke, and sleep. posted by ian mcewan @ 422 AM 0 comments Name ian mcewan Location Portland, Oregon, United States http://bluecollarillustrator.blogspot.com/

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=32493977"); The blue collar illustrator Thursday, January 03, 2008 Art Show today Wow. Seeing my name on a poster is pretty awesome. From Jason Levian: FLOATING WORLD COMICS PRESENTS: Jan. poster by Lukas Ketner "A LIFE IN PICTURES" GROUP SHOW WITH 19 LOCAL ARTISTS, LOOSELY UNITED BY A STANLEY KUBRICK DOCUMENTARY THAT I ASKED EACH OF THE ARTISTS TO WATCH LAST MONTH. This January Floating World Comics is proud to present a varied group show with some of the town's best and brightest new artists, painters and illustrators. In order to find a connecting thread between all these artists, I came up with the theme "A LIFE IN PICTURES" which they were asked to interpret however they liked. To get things rolling I invited them all to watch the Stanley Kubrick documentary with the same name, "A LIFE IN PICTURES". I instructed the artists that the show did not necessarily have to be Kubrick themed. But rather, I found the documentary to be very inspiring and it rejuvenated my creative spirit. It reminded me why good art is so important to me. I hoped that the experience would have a similar and unifying effect if the artists in the show watched it as well.

40. Ian McEwan Has Nothing To Atone For - TIME The latest in a long year of literary scandals just isn t that scandalous. http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1563950,00.html

var s_account="timecom"; Time.com CNN.com Search Archive Home U.S. The Page Main ... Pictures of the Week Ian McEwan Has Nothing to Atone For Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006 By LEV GROSSMAN Article Tools Print Email Reprints Sphere addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; addthis_pub = 'timecom'; RSS Please, can we declare an end to the year of the literary gotcha? Because I’m fresh out of outrage. Yes, I cared that James Frey exaggerated or fabricated parts of his memoir A Million Little Pieces. I sort of cared that Kaavya Viswanathan borrowed bits of her young adult novel (the title of which is too long to bother typing) from other young adult novels. I even sort of tried to care that J.T. Leroy, the author of assorted literary works that almost nobody besides Courtney Love had read, was himself fabricated by a San Francisco couple looking for attention. But don’t ask me to be outraged that there are slight similarities between Ian McEwan’s Atonement and the autobiography of a WWII nurse. I just don’t have it in me. Related Articles Sphere.Inline.search('sphereSideBar','http://time.com/')

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