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The news has come that Frank McCourt is dead. I have heard of him and that is sufficient as Edward Dahlberg would say. Denis Donoghue was n...

In FADO a book of essays by Andrzej Stasiuk that Dalkey Archive is to publish in September there is a short essay on the Yugoslavian--- as t...

No longer that possibility to write as I do not have the connection. What do I mean? In every country of the former Soviet Empire from Bulg...

54 Leaving one’s room to go travelling is probably always a mistake and to go to Europe, to go to the East one cannot avoid committing ...

Is it then that you have reached such a degree of lethargy that you acquiesce in your sickness? If so, let us flee to lands that are analog...

Book Expo the annual publishers show settled down in New York City. In the few weeks before it I had been invited to meet some distinguishe...

Remembering on Memorial Day Published in the Los Angeles Times. 25 May 2009 As recently as the late 1950s, in a small town on Long lsland n...