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Prose style matters less than access to toxic love, pain and suffering… and a light smattering of suicide and violent death
There was no shortage of left-wing authors of Golden Age detective fiction
He was indisputably Albanian, indisputably a national writer, but like all great writers he was both rooted in a particular place and universally comprehensible
Over the course of 600-odd pages, Paul Murray marshals elements of tragedy, black comedy and drama with consummate skill
As it stands, its place as a literary locus in the American canon is a fraught one
If any writer was acutely aware of how complicated the human psyche is, it was Munro
His career represented a sequence of missed opportunities for the world beyond his chosen genre to recognize his skill and quiet profundity
His personal life was eventful, as any good writer’s should be
He might be the greatest American novelist you’ve never heard of
When you give a child a book by a celebrity, you are feeding their minds with advertising
