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Rumaan Alam: ‘Reading JD Salinger now is like running into that particular ex at a cafe’

The US author on his early love of Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, the genius of Judy Blume, and finding perfection in Agatha Christie and Gustave Flaubert

The Guardian - UK

Buckeye by Patrick Ryan review – behind the American dream

This luminous and tender 20th-century saga of wounded souls and small-town secrets has a deep melancholy

The Guardian - UK

Do you have a short story you read in school that you still think about?

There's always that one messed up story.

The Mary Sue

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Richard Flanagan: ‘When I reread Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop it had corked badly’

The Booker-winning author on taking inspiration from Kafka, and a youthful passion for Jackie Collins

The Guardian - UK

Flannery O’Connor at 100: should we still read her?

She died before she was 40, leaving behind a body of blazingly original short fiction set in America’s segregated south. But her reputation has been tarnished by accusations of racism

The Guardian - UK

Inspirational Quotes: Rickey Henderson, Ursula Burns And Others

Read inspirational quotes about being genuine, bettering yourself and putting in your top effort.

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Beloved cartoons are entering the public domain next year – but what does that mean?

Early sound films by Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford, and music by Cole Porter and Fats Waller, are also included

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Arena Group fires CEO in wake of Sports Illustrated AI articles scandal

Ross Levinsohn sacking was to ‘improve the operational efficiency and revenue of the company’, says board, two weeks after fake authors exposed

The Guardian - AU

In Killers of the Flower Moon, true crime reveals the paradoxes of the past

Martin Scorsese’s latest film Killers of the Flower Moon is based on a 2017 book of the same name by David Grann that chronicled a true story of Osage Indians being systematically murdered in the 1920s.

The Conversation

Mary Trump exposed her uncle Donald’s dirty laundry in spectacular fashion. Her own life is a quiet mystery

Republican former president’s estranged niece has been a constant thorn in his side since the publication of her explosive best-seller ‘Too Much and Never Enough’ in July 2020, Joe Sommerlad writes

The Independent UK

Why have you read 'The Great Gatsby' but not Ursula Parrott’s 'Ex-Wife'?

In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald published “The Great Gatsby.” Four years later, Ursula Parrott published her first novel, “Ex-Wife.”

The Conversation

James Lee Burke talks about Clete Purcel, the Civil War and more

When I ask author James Lee Burke whether the rumor is true that he’s finally written a novel devoted to his brawling, beloved character Clete Purcel, he laughs heartily and pumps his fists in the air.

Tribune News Service

Why 'wokeness' has become the latest battlefront for white conservatives in America

The day he launched his bid for the Republican nomination for the 2024 US presidential election, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warned Fox News viewers “the woke mind virus is basically a form of cultural Marxism.”

The Conversation

Cormac McCarthy: where to begin reading his searing, brutal and unforgettable novels

The novelist Cormac McCarthy was suspicious of punctuation, profoundly interested in violence, respected skill and physical labour, and loved the richness of the English language. He was particularly fond of short, declarative sentences and the word “and”.

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The Independent UK

For novelists of Westerns, Cormac McCarthy transcended — and reinvented — the genre

In his obituaries, Cormac McCarthy has been widely praised as a descendant of William Faulkner and Herman Melville among others, those excavators of the American spirit whose biblically influenced prose raised narratives to tragic and poetic heights

The Guardian - UK

Cormac McCarthy obituary

Acclaimed author whose novels, such as The Road and Blood Meridian, told grim, violent tales of life stripped down to the fundamentals of existence in a hostile world

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: What a Jewish archive in Poland can teach us about Ukrainians’ refugee experience

While I was standing in the Jewish archives in Warsaw, Poland, during a recent humanitarian trip to strengthen programs of protection and safety for refugees from Ukraine, time became quite circular — an evocation of William Faulkner’s adage that “the past is never dead. It’s not even past.” For brought…

Chicago Sun-Times

Cormac McCarthy, ‘No Country for Old Men’ author, dies at 89

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian” and “All the Pretty Horses.”

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The Independent UK

Cormac McCarthy, lauded author of 'The Road' and 'No Country for Old Men,' dies at 89

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of novels that included “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” has died

The New Daily

Cormac McCarthy, dark genius of US literature, dies age 89

Cormac McCarthy, whose nihilistic tales of the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds led to awards, has died at the age of 89.

The Guardian - US

Cormac McCarthy, celebrated US novelist, dies aged 89

Author of Blood Meridian, The Road and No Country for Old Men died in his home of natural causes, publisher announces

Tribune News Service

John M. Crisp: Why I like public schools and, for that matter, the Post Office

I like public schools for the same reason that William Faulkner hated the Post Office.

Bangkok Post

Hype and backlash as Harry's memoir goes on sale

LONDON: After months of anticipation and a blanket publicity blitz, Prince Harry's autobiography "Spare" went on sale on Tuesday as royal insiders hit back at his scorching revelations.

The Independent UK

‘Spare’ but not stingy: takeaways from Prince Harry’s memoir

Prince Harry's memoir “Spare” arrives in bookstores on Tuesday, providing a varied portrait of the Duke of Sussex and the royal family

The Independent UK

Prince Harry's book exposes grief, war, drugs, family rifts

An explosive memoir reveals many facets of Prince Harry, from bereaved boy and troubled teen to wartime soldier and unhappy royal

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