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Kakutani tugs on Robert Stone’s beard.

Simon Schama in surprisingly good form wriiting in The FT about Updike and more specifically his last collection of short stories, My Father’s Tears.

Too good to let this pass unremarked - Julian Barnes on the underrated Frank O’Connor in The Spectator. For readers unfamiliar with his work, a good place to start is the classic GUESTS OF THE NATION. Interestingly mangled by Neil Jordan in The Crying Game.
More background information on Frank O’Connor via Michael L Storey’s [...]