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Asked about a common thread in her early stories, Ann Beattie answered that they were “filled with my personal worry beads: music, more music, dogs, digs at Nixon.” Now, as if to do penance for all of those digs, she has written a book about Mrs. Nixon. Not Pat Nixon, [...]
Continued →David Lodge must be sleeping better, eating with gusto, laughing louder at Jim Crace‘s jokes, and generally looking, say, five years younger and ten pounds (is that a stone?) lighter these days. Why? He has escaped the worst fate for a writer known to modern literary kind, in a most [...]
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A blog by Lisa Levy about dead critics, a few live critics, and the nature of critical inquiry
