Literary crushes

Article Abstract:

A music critic describes his current fascination with literary works by the artist Fairfield Porter. When he first encounters an artist, his enthusiasm is boundless and he is eager to read all works by the particular writers. As his interest in one author wanes, he finds another author with which to repeat the pattern.

Column, Influence, Art and literature, Porter, Fairfield

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Where have you gone, Orrin Knox? The decline of the Washington novel

Article Abstract:

Allen Drury's 1959 book 'Advise and Consent' was was one of the greatest political novels to be set in Washington DC, but the genre that book spawned seems to have faded. Vietnam, Watergate and the fall of Communism have all made political novels less appealing to the general public.

Politicians, Portrayals, Washington, D.C., Authorship, Advise and Consent (Book), Drury, Allen

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'None ever wished it longer': how to stamp out book inflation

Article Abstract:

Too many modern biography authors write vast tomes that could benefit from better editing, and literary biographies are often especially verbose. A tongue-in-cheek guide to reversing the trend toward ever-longer biographies is presented.

Humor and anecdotes, Biographers, Biography, Biographies

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