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Tag Archives: William Styron
2015 Books Read
Even I am impressed with how much I read this year. Along the course of the year, occasionally I’d think to myself, “Good job, Sheila, with your Self-Imposed Reading Plan!” I’ve read a lot of new novels (not really my … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Alexander Hamilton, Baseball A Literary Anthology, books read, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Marlowe, Edvard Radzinsky, Elvis Presley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Eliot, Hannah Arendt, Hunter S. Thompson, Ireland, J.D. Salinger, Jeanette Winterson, Jincy Willett, Joan Didion, John Banville, John Wayne, Joshua Ferris, Lorrie Moore, Machiavelli, Margaret Atwood, Norman Rush, Patricia Highsmith, Paul Zindel, Rasputin, Rebecca West, Ron Chernow, Russia, science, Seamus Heaney, Shakespeare, Vietnam, W.H. Auden, William Styron
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The Books: Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression, edited by Nell Casey; ‘Strands’, by Rose Styron
On the essays shelf: Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression edited by Nell Casey. Another essay from Unholy Ghost, a collection with different writers writing about their experience with depression. I have written before about William Styron’s Darkness Visible, an indispensable … Continue reading
Speaking of Churchill’s “Black Dog”…
… which I always seem to be doing these days, no surprise there, here is a terrific review by James Wolcott in London Review of Books of the collected letters of William Styron. I have written before about Styron’s searing … Continue reading
The Books: Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints, ‘A Hard Case’, by Joan Acocella
On the essays shelf: Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella. The next essay I want to excerpt is called ‘A Hard Case’, a review of a new biography on Primo Levi, by Carol Angier. Acocella, like many … Continue reading
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Tagged essays, Italy, Joan Acocella, politics, Primo Levi, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints, war, William Styron
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The Books: Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, by William Styron
Daily Book Excerpt: Memoirs: Next book on the Memoir/Letters/Journals shelf is Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, by William Styron When Italian chemist and writer Primo Levi killed himself in 1987, much of the response was one of almost baffled … Continue reading