This is the grave of Aphra Behn. Born in 1640 in Canterbury, Kent, England, we know almost nothing about Behn's childhood, including her pre-married last name. She seems to have.
I was a big fan of Laila Lalami's The Other Americans, which I thought was a super book, and I was excited to see that she's published her next novel..
A word about our new Nobel Prize for Literature. The only of her books I have read is The Vegetarian, though the others look great too. This is kind of.
A word on the person who I considered the greatest living writer. Alice Munro's stories always touched me deeply, going back to when I first read them about 20 years.
I recently returned to Nabokov for the first time in a decade, reading Ada or Ardor, which is a wonderful and underrated book. In many ways, it is a companion.
This is the grave of Albert Murray. Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1916, Murray attended Tuskegee Institute and graduated in 1939. He started a graduate program at the University of.
This the grave of John O'Hara. Born in 1905 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania to a well-off Irish-American family, O'Hara was a bit of an outsider in the elite circles his family.
The great writer and Nobel Prize winner V.S. Naipaul has died. Naipaul could be controversial and I sometimes thought his portrayals of non-whites could actually be near-racist themselves, especially the.
