She was a longtime contributor of Commentary magazine, where her husband Norman Podhoretz was editor. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-09 20:57:00 UTC ]
Solnit’s ‘Orwell’s Roses’ is the story of a life that doesn’t read like a typical biography. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-10-19 14:00:00 UTC ]
Granta Books has signed a new book from social critic and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich on the topic of mortality. Editorial director Bella Lacey signed UK and Commonwealth rights excluding Canada in Old Enough to Die from Karolina Sutton at Curtis Brown on behalf of Kris Dahl at ICM. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
To him, the world was both subject and spectacle. Yet he remained, always, an author difficult to categorize.Gore Vidal, who died Tuesday night at age 86, was a fixture on the American cultural landscape for so long that it seems hard to imagine our literature without him. From 1946, when his... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]