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… published James Dickey: The World as a Lie (Picador, $35), coming to the reading public after eight years of intensive … graduate students. And, as it happened, Winton and I had also once upon a time been students together at Princeton. … you were another Southerner of our generation—close buddies. But we got along just fine. So I drove out from the …

… was a scholar and a critic, a poet and a humanist. He was also an inspiring teacher and a devoted father. He died on Aug. 5, 1990 at the age of 61. This is how his … halt the cancer’s further spread. An unpleasant, but fairly common operation. He had to have a bone scan the following …

… of Das Totenschiff (The Death Ship) in the spring of 1926, he became famous. That his works were soon translated … married a Mexican lady, Rosa Elena Luján, in 1957. That he died in Mexico City on March 26, 1969. II About B. Traven we … whose personalities positively drench their works, and it becomes a slightly maddening yet delightful experience to …

… here for the first time, “War Thoughts at Home” embodies the stories of two great friends in Frost’s life. The … bad for an American poet). Melcher, in the meanwhile, was becoming a ubiquitous force for civic good in the publishing … will not bid you cease, from being slain. Frost barely conceals the “hidden ill” here: though he would not bid aloud …

… broken and I was allowed to call my parents and beg them to come get me. They refused, and I ended up enjoying myself … a forward momentum so subtly powerful that, at various points in the book, I felt suddenly startled by how many … most effervescent.  At the end of the novel, Jules studies an old storyboard that Ethan drew for an animation that …