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Celebrated in his prime, forgotten in his final years, only to be championed anew by our greatest contemporary authors, Richard Yates has always exposed readers to the unsettling hypocrisies of our modern age. In Blake Bailey's masterful and entertaining biography, Yates himself serves as the fascinContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Tough is the night
‘Mostly we authors repeat ourselves,’ Scott Fitzgerald observed late in his life. ‘We learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories … as long as people will listen.’ There’s a lot of truth in this remark (though some author ... (read full critics)
spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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Out of the ashes
A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates by Blake Bailey 688pp, Methuen, £25 Thirteen years ago I travelled to Alexandria Bay, New York, to interview the largely forgotten writer Frederick Exley, the author of one marvellous, lachrymose, ... (read full critics)