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A century on from the American writer’s ‘very poor and very happy’ days in the city, Stanley Stewart goes in search of his favourite haunts
A new documentary series on the writer comes at a moment when we need an infusion of his restless spirit
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Official historian saved the baroque and neoclassical buildings loved by tourists
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Elmore Leonard, novelist, 1925-2013
A trip across America to discover why writers drink
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