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SIR HALL CAINE
SIR HALL CAINE has been telling us about his early experiences as a writer, of how it was many times “Greek meet Greek” with him financially in the early days of his struggle for a name, especially when there was a wife and family to be provided for out of his meagre earnings from his pen. He sold his first novels for less than modern fiction writers get for short stories of a few thousand words and was glad tc take the money. One •of his most popular early works was accepted by a Scotch publisher with many misgivings about the chance he was taking in printing the work of an obscure writing man. In the second of a series he has been writing for the New York Times Book Review and Magazine, Caine tells of some of the humorous incidents of his career as a novelist:
War correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Sheehan dies at 84
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“In much the way that other male American writers, such as Hemingway, Baldwin and Edmund White, have chosen Paris as the place in which their lone protagonist can be tested and changed, Greenwell uses Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, as his cauldron . [He] displays an extraordinary skill at handling time . [The titular story is] an exquisite piece of writing.” Colm Toibin,
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“An electrifying portrait of sex’s power to lacerate and liberate, to make and unmake our deepest selves … [Greenwell] melds an incantatory cadence with the catechistic language of porn, which is ridiculous until you’re ‘lit up with a longing that makes it the most beautiful language in the world.’ … Intimately powerful.”
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Neil Sheehan, the New York Times reporter who obtained the “Pentagon Papers” outlining government deception during the Vietnam War, died Thursday at 84, The Washington Post reported.
Sheehan’s wife Susan, an author, told the Post her husband died as a result of complications from Parkinson’s disease.
Sheehan, the son of Irish immigrants, was an alumnus of Harvard University and a U.S. Army veteran, eventually covering the early days of the Vietnam War with United Press International.
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In 1971, Sheehan raised eyebrows with a story for The New York Times Book Review suggesting the Nixon administration was guilty of crimes against humanity in Vietnam. While the argument was controversial, it earned the notice of whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg met with Sheehan and gave him a tranche of classified documents proving President Lyndon Johnson’s administration systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress” about the wa
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