I know what you’re thinking: Books to read before you’re 30? What does it matter when in your life you read a book? Possibly a lot. In Unfinished Business, Vivian Gornick describes the process of revisiting beloved texts as something akin to “lying on the analyst’s couch.” A story she thought she understood “is suddenly … Read more
LONDON: British author A S Byatt, who wove history, myth and a sharp eye for human foibles into books that included the Booker Prize-winning novel “Possession“, has died at the age of 87. Byatt’s publisher, Chatto & Windus, said Friday that the authordied “peacefully at home surrounded by close family” on Thursday. Byatt wrote two … Read more
“Fiction writers, we tend to make things up,” he says. “But if you have the president there and you’re writing about a president, that’s wonderful. Because he’ll tell you, ‘This is what the Secret Service would do, here’s what they wouldn’t do… here’s what might happen at the White House, here’s how it wouldn’t happen’. … Read more