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I wish - I wish instead of just recommending these books, I could set them down at your doorstep. The collected stories of John Updike, the second volume of T.C. Boyle's collected stories, and Stanley Crouch's book about the rise and times of our genius saxophone player Charlie Parker. These are deep books, books that you can get lost in.

~Alan Cheuse

Topics: About Book Books Charlie Charlie Parker Collected Could Deep Doorstep Down Genius Get Instead John Just Lost Our Parker Player Rise Saxophone Second Set Stanley Stories Them Times Volume Wish You Your I Wish

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The dedication of Don Winslow's novel 'The Cartel' is nearly two pages long: a list of journalists who were either murdered or 'disappeared' in Mexico between 2004 and 2012 - the period covered in this hugely hypnotic new thriller.

~Alan Cheuse

Topics: Between Covered Dedication Disappeared Either Hugely Hypnotic Journalists List Long Mexico Nearly New Novel Pages Period Thriller Two Were Who

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We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every fiction writer crosses the line that divides artistry and documentation - or erases it.

~Alan Cheuse

Topics: Artistry Both Crosses Divides Documentation Every Fiction Fiction Writer Historians Line Novelists Other Want World Writer

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Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

~Alan Cheuse

Topics: Any Books Itself Life Live Lived Lives Might Much Other Part Picked Reading Those Up Us

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Former Dublin newsman Paul Lynch made his debut as a novelist a few years ago with a book called 'Red Sky in Morning,' set in mid-19th century County Donegal, where a rage-driven farmer has committed a murder with devastating results.

~Alan Cheuse

Topics: Book Century Committed County Debut Devastating Dublin Farmer Few Former His Made Morning Novelist Paul Red Results Set Sky Where Years Years Ago

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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.

~Alan Cheuse

Topics: Bonfire Born Copies Country Family First Girl Her Horrifying Irish Neighbors Novel Published Purpose Set She Small Tossed Village Where

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In 'A Scandalous Woman,' the eventually distraught narrator watches as her high-spirited friend is beaten down - literally and figuratively - by Ireland's pious customs.

~Alan Cheuse

Topics: Beaten Customs Down Eventually Friend Her Ireland Literally Narrator Pious Scandalous Watches Woman

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The premise of 'Descent' may sound pretty straightforward: One summer morning while vacationing with her family in the foothills of the Rockies, a young girl, a high-school athlete in her senior year, goes out for a run in the higher altitudes - and disappears.

~Alan Cheuse

Topics: Athlete Descent Disappears Family Girl Goes Her High-School Higher May Morning Out Premise Pretty Run Senior Senior Year Sound Straightforward Summer While Year Young Young Girl

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In 'Shadow Tag,' Erdrich creates scenes from a fictional marriage, that of two American Indians, Irene and her painter husband Gil, that suggest some of the worst psychological torments and stresses of real life.

~Alan Cheuse

Topics: American Creates Fictional Her Husband Indians Life Marriage Painter Psychological Real Real Life Scenes Shadow Some Stresses Suggest Tag Two Worst

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Sad to think that we won't have any new stories from John Updike, one of the last century's masters. But so many here in the two volumes of his collected stories, 186 by my count, stories to read, reread, savor over the course of a cold season. Updike's genius in the short form spills out of these many, many pages.

~Alan Cheuse

Topics: Any Century Cold Collected Count Course Form Genius Here His John Last Many Masters New Out Over Pages Read Sad Savor Season Short Stories Think Two Volumes

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 23rd, 1940

Died: July 31st, 2015

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