Will Blythe
Will Blythe is a magazine writer and book author living in New York City. He is a former
Harper's and Mirabella, and writes for many other periodicals, including The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Elle, and the Oxford American.[1]
His short story "The Taming Power of the Small" was anthologized in the
Carolina-Duke rivalry). The New York Times describes Blythe thus: "... he writes amusingly, self-deprecatingly and often beautifully. {...} Fans of college basketball will wish that all sportswriters possessed Blythe's ability to describe a game, to translate its tension and render its action."[2]
Blythe is also the editor of Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction, published in 1999, and co-editor of Lust, Violence, Sin, Magic: Sixty Years of Esquire Fiction, published in 1993. He writes regularly for the New York Times Book Review.
In January 2014, he published an op-ed in The New York Times, "Fired? Speak No Evil," about being required to sign a "no disparagement" agreement in order to receive severance pay after being fired by Byliner. "It’s not that I necessarily want to disparage," he concluded, "but I want the freedom to do so, to be able to criticize, to attack, to carp, to excoriate, if need be. I want to tell the truth, even if it isn’t pretty.".[3]
References
- ^ The Authors. Will Blythe 2008.
- ^ Foer, Franklin. Tobacco Road Rage. The New York Times, April 2, 2006.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
