Hints and tips:
...A long and brilliant essay on Eudora Welty ends, “Literary biography is like detective fiction for those who don’t need suspense”. I wish I’d written that....
...While black and white paradoxically abstracted and aestheticised reality, colour came with its own vernacular authenticity, revealing what Eudora Welty called “the grain of the present”....
...The thriller writer Nelson DeMille, Eric Ambler, John Irving, Eudora Welty, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie. Who would you like to be stuck in a lift with?...
...Soon they’ve enlisted other writers who described the second world war: Martha Gellhorn, John Toland....
...In New York that year, I saw John Szarkowski, the MoMA curator who had famously exhibited Eggleston in the 1970s. He congratulated me on the book....
...Richard Ford’s selection includes classic stories by authors including Eudora Welty and Raymond Carver, but also incorporates newer voices....
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