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Realistic and romantic essays from an American master who died in 2015
James Salter’s novel is enjoyable but his ‘perfect’ short stories have the fully-mastered qualities of style, structure and authority
Where do I write best? I’m nomadic. I wander around the house
‘Catch-22’ defined Joseph Heller, but the great antiwar novel published 50 years ago was not his finest
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