Bestselling author who enjoyed overnight success with her debut novel A Woman of SubstanceIt was Graham Greene who inadvertently launched Barbara Taylor Bradford, who has died aged 91, on the road that would lead, in 2003, to her induction into the Writers Hall of Fame of America, alongside Mark... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-11-25 16:52:30 UTC ]
I don’t remember what made me pull the fat hardcover off my poetry shelf one day not long ago. It was one I had picked up secondhand on the Upper West Side in my grad school days, with a green linen cover, a bit stained: the complete poems of Robert Frost. On the front in […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-09-05 08:56:14 UTC ]
Hello readers. I’m Carolyn Kellogg, L.A. Times Books Editor, with what’s new in books this week. THE BIG FAREWELL It came as a surprise, I was told: Harlan Ellison died in his sleep Wednesday night at age 84. The science fiction writer — who hated it when people called him that — was sharply... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
In addition to being a master writer, celebrated American poet Robert Frost was also a master reader. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]