Baxter on Porter
Charles Baxter’s excellent New York Review of Books piece on the fiction of Katherine Anne Porter isn’t freely available online, but it’s worth seeking out. The Library of America has just published...
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Jonathan Franzen’s zeitgeist-straddling Freedom has arrived with such outsized fanfare—most notably the Time magazine “Great American Novelist” cover—that backlash was inevitable. The binge and purge...
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Because You Have To: A Writing Life Joan Frank University of Notre Dame Press 2012 Reviewed by Bob Wake Joan Frank poses a stark riddle in Because You Have To: A Writing Life, her disarming and candid...
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