Tom's latest memoir slice at Hippocampus is a perfect piece of writing. I can't wait for the book from Rose Metal, I really can't hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/07/when...
"When we say there used to be more lightning bugs, I’m afraid we’re really talking about how our parents used to be alive." -- Tom McAllister in "When We Used to Glow"
I was hoping he'd pick Jeannette Walls
I want to see the 1975 - 2000 list, but by current critics
Vidal's essays
America, in case you were wondering, has been a Kadare novel for some time now
Three-Arched Bridge is such a masterpiece, my god.
RIP Ismail Kadare, one of the age's greatest novelists, author of 'Palace of Dreams', 'The Three-Arched Bridge', 'Chronicle in Stone' and much more www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
His allegorical stories, informed by life under state communism, drew international praise but he insisted that he was not a political writer