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In 1967 Stone, a Yale dropout who had taught school in Saigon, volunteered for the infantry in Viet Nam. Suddenly the preppie was surrounded by guys he never would have met back in the "world." Urban blacks were importing tactics of street survival to the jungle; Southern farm boys were...
In August of 2005, the world intruded in a way the author could never have imagined when his house at Bermagui burned to the ground. Partly caused by a faulty gas line, the inferno spared little?"there were twisted metal things for the fridge and the gas stove," Hall recalls...
Among other things, Love Without Hope is about duty of care: society's, for strangers like Mrs. Shoddy who hover beyond town fringes; and the reader's, for a character worthy of compassion and completion. Despite seemingly absurdist and sardonic elements, the novel is simpler and less fanciful than Hall...
For many who watched it, the execution of Saddam Hussein was a personal vindication. He killed their brothers, uncles, tore apart their families and ran their beloved country into the ground. Even if his finger didn't pull the trigger, they blamed him for everything: every nail-biting visit by...
Much of Wilder’s family was killed in the Holocaust—this had a profound influence upon his work. One of the films being shown in the series, “Five Graves to Cairo,” is a thriller that examines the conflicts of World...