John Marshall, longtime book critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, offers a farewell column that has tidbits on all kinds of literary notables from the past decade. Among his observations: Strangest moment: Memoirist Mary Karr ("The Liars' Club") packing as I...
Updike wrote so many book reviews he needed entire books to contain them. His lengthy reviews in The New Yorker over the years were admirably long on substance and sympathy, blessedly short on snark. In Picked-Up Pieces (1975), Updike explained...
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