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...A year ago, Vann R. Newkirk II, staff writer at The Atlantic, set out to tell the story of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans 15 years ago....
...Think of George Saunders or Donald Barthelme, Lorrie Moore and Lydia Davis....
...Bright Air Black, by David Vann, William Heinemann, RRP£18.99, 272 pages Rebecca Abrams’ ‘The Jewish Journey: 4000 Years in 22 Objects’ is published in October by Ashmolean Books Illustration by David...
...A Mile Down, by David Vann, William Heinemann, RRP£18.99/Da Capo, RRP$14.95 On holiday in Turkey, Vann comes across the steel hull of a 90ft boat and, fulfilling a dream, he decides to rebuild it and sail...
...Vann writes with deft control and a gift for prose propelled as effortlessly as a school of fish. Aquarium, by David Vann, William Heinemann, RRP£18.99 / Atlantic Monthly Press, RRP$24, 272 pages...
...David Vann is author of ‘Goat Mountain’ (William Heinemann)...
...We follow Old India hand, Jeremiah Blake, along with Lieutenant William Avery, on their hunt for Xavier Mountstuart, a poet obsessed with the Thugs....
...Goat Mountain, by David Vann, William Heinemann, RRP£16.99/Harper $25.99, 256 pages In a chapter of his memoir This Boy’s Life (1989), the American short story writer Tobias Wolff details his childhood...
...Nearby, around Vann Molyvann’s Independence Monument, grand mansions of government ministers can be seen....
...… I Knew the Bride, by Hugo Williams, Faber, RRP£12.99 Speaking to us from the bar at the Savoy, a hospital ward or the kitchen sink, Williams gives us a selection of settings as meandering as his ideas...
...Dirt, by David Vann, Harper, RRP$25.99/William Heinemann, RRP£12.99, 272 pages The greatest movies were set in the American west, in the badlands, in Monument Valley, where John Ford roughnecks drank cowboy...
...The White Man’s Burden by William Easterly, which is about the aid industry. When did you know you were going to be a writer?...
...Dirt, by David Vann, William Heinemann, RRP£12.99, 272 pages Set in 1985, in a small patch of wild America, Vann’s novel follows the character of Galen, a skinny, adolescent shaman, who lives with his much-loved...
...Combining the wistfulness of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones with the formal daring of David Vann’s Legend of a Suicide, it’s hard to imagine a better debut this year....
...The boundaries are set by Alex Vann’s mandolin, spiky and high on the fretboard, and Jon Hunt’s guitar, essentially a rhythmic bottom end....
...Strong, stylistically representative tales from Richard Ford and William Trevor, Faulkner and de Maupassant nudge against a wry snippet from Grace Paley, intense Carver dialogue and Lorrie Moore’s acerbic...
...A Gate at the Stairs By Lorrie Moore Faber, £16.99 As if the recent publication of her collected stories had not proved Moore to be one of today’s greatest American writers, along comes her fourth novel...
...“The challenge is to get the product back to you,” says Lorrie Vogel, general manager of Nike’s Considered team....
...William Trevor, the great Irish writer, laughed softly....
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