I recently finished reading Sarah Dunant‘s latest novel entitled Sacred Hearts. Ms. Dunant is the author of eight other novels and three works of non-fiction. Of the novels, I have read four now: Sacred Hearts, In the Company of the Courtesan, Mapping the Edge, and The Birth of Venus. In the Company of the Courtesan…
I just finished reading Envy by Kathryn Harrison. Now I am reading The Havana Room by Colin Harrison. Yes, they are related. They are husband and wife and both have written a number of books. I read the most recent New York Times Sunday serial in the NYTimes Magazine by Colin Harrison and it…
A very good book I just finished reading over the weekend was Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo. Russo is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for writing Empire Falls. I had never read anything of Russo’s before reading Bridge of Sighs. Before traveling to Venice a few years ago, all “Bridge of Sighs” meant…
I was looking at a list of books that Francine Prose recommends at the back of her Reading Like a Writer. The last one on the list is Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. Later, I was at Half Price Books and saw Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz. I couldn’t remember Yates’ name and thought…
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