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Kingsolver’s Lacuna
I can tell that a novel is top-rate when I start praying for the characters. And when, on finishing the book, I sit immobilized, loathe to break the spell of the world it has brought me into. A world drawn from our own but given a shape and meaning that allows us to see something new about our own world. So it was with Barbara Kingsolver’s latest....
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Salinger: The Heart of a Broken Story
On October 10, 1986, J.D. Salinger travelled to New York City to meet with a lawyer. It had been just over twenty years since he had published anything and he was not about to see any more of it published—even brief excerpts of letters he'd written to friends and....
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Feeling a Story
Two weekends ago, I learned something about a friend that took me by surprise and helped me to understand stories and novels in a different way. I discovered that, way back before he was married and graduated from law school, my friend had been a graduate student. Not only that, but he had taken a course co-taught by....
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A Hundred Years of Love
Gerald Martin’s new biography of Gabriel García Márquez and the fine review of it in The New York Review of Books (July 16, 2009) have taken me back to my first love affair with One Hundred Years of Solitude. Published as Cien Años de Soledad in Buenos Aires in 1967, the novel instantly thrust García Márquez....
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Vacation Reading
Last week, the New York Times carried a story about President Obama on vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. Not hard news—far from it—the story offered assembled tidbits of press coverage as reporters hung out at local bars and T-shirt shops and golf courses hoping for views of POTUS....
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Issue 71
Fiction by Larry Woiwode, interview with Joe Henry, art by Fabian Debora, essay by Barry Moser.
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