american fiction
In Britain, at the very least, Tom Drury might just be modern America’s last great lost living novelist: an astute chronicler of the shrugging, unintentionally hilarious exchanges that go on in small towns. If you’ve enjoyed the fiction of Richard Russo or Annie Proulx and, like me, you
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Sara Maitland - Gossip From The Forest (Granta, 2013)I'm not convinced the travel aspect of Maitland's book (in which she visits one of her favourite bits of British forest every month for a year and discusses the symbiotic relationship of humans and woodland) and the
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On the whole, rock and roll novels don't work. Admittedly, I say that as someone who doesn't get on with a lot of fiction OR non-fiction music books (including the two I've written myself and summarily tried my best to forget about), but nobody
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My review of the new George Saunders book for the Daily Telegraph.
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A piece I wrote on an overlooked American classic for the Guardian's Books section.
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An interview I did for The Observer newspaper.
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My latest Overlooked Classic Of American Literature for Guardian Books.
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My latest Overlooked Classics Of American Literature column for The Guardian's Books Section.
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My latest Overlooked Classics Of American Literature column for The Guardian's Books Section.
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A piece I wrote for The Guardian about reorganising my bookshelves.
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A column for The Guardian's Books Section.
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The latest in my Lost Classics Of American Literature series for Guardian Books.