One of America’s great novelists passed away this week. Here is National Public Radio: Cormac McCarthy, one of the great novelists of American literature, died Tuesday of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 89. His […]
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The best campus novels of the last century
The list includes Dorothy Sayers’s Gaudy Night (1935); Wallace Stegner’s Crossing to Safety (1987); Ishmael Reed’s Japanese by Spring (1993); Philip Roth, The Human Stain (2000); and Tobias Wolff, Old School (2003). Here is Emily Temple at LitHub: The days […]
Jonathan Franzen understands 1970s Christian youth culture
I finished Jonathan Franzen’s novel Crossroads over the weekend. I don’t read too much fiction, but this was a book I couldn’t put down. Perhaps I will write a review of it when I get the time, but for now […]