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Richard Yates: Supreme Chronicler of American Solitude

8/16/2021

Twenty years after it was first published, here is an essay I wrote in The Atlantic about one of my favorite writers-- Richard Yates.

If you haven't read his work, check out his harrowing Revolutionary Road. Or if you would rather start with a shorter piece, try the story "Liars in Love" from the collection of the same name.

As I stated back in 2001, "at the heart of Yates's work [lies] the beauty that can arise from the rendering of sadness and desolation. It is a beauty that derives not from writing-school mannerisms or precious prose but from the sense that truth—absolute, unadulterated, almost unbearable—is being communicated."

From the Vaults: The New City

8/9/2021

BBC Radio has just made some older content available. Here, from 1999, is a terrific interview with Harriett Gilbert from Meridian about The New City .

Novel #9

7/13/2021

Novel number 9, Locust Lane is now fully edited and ready for Celadon Press to publish in 2022.

Human Capital on HBO MAX

7/10/2021

COVID-19 meant the March 2020 theatrical release of Marc Meyers' version of Human Capital didn't happen. Now the movie has made its way to HBO MAX, so tune in to see the novel's characters back on their home turf after the highly successful Italian adaptation by Paolo Virzi, il capitale umano.

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