Word: writers
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...Staff writer Elias J. Groll can be reached at egroll@fas.harvard.edu...
...work sang but was unsung. That's what friends and avid readers said about Barry Hannah, the Southern writer who died at age 67 on March 1. Many of his greatest admirers were writers themselves. In 2000, when news spread that Barry had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, more than 50 young writers staged a banquet to honor him. They came from Montana and New York and Florida to be with the author of Airships and High Lonesome for one evening and let him know how much he meant to them...
...reputation of his mentor. "Domoslawski was not a good disciple of Kapuscinski, who was a refined man," Lubienski wrote in Gazeta Wyborcza. "[His book is] about the private life of the man who wrote The Emperor. That's unnecessary and it pushes the book into the gutter." Says another writer, Andrzej Stasiuk, in defense of Kapuscinski: "Would we care about the truth if it was served up in a dull, pretentious way? I read Kapuscinski for the pleasure of reading Kapuscinski. I read his works for the sentences, paragraphs, fragments, the history he creates by pulling together details, second-long...
...Domoslawski maintains that he didn't set out to destroy a man he still considers to be a great writer. In fact, he said in an interview with Polska the Times, he wrote the book with "empathy" for his old friend. "He has been a myth and an icon," the biographer said. "Perhaps now we will look at him as a human being in his all complexity." And some commentators outside Poland have praised Domoslawski's work for its honest portrayal of the man. "I find that the author tries to be fair, allowing many different voices to speak," British...
...closest and most faithful to what surrounds me. It is an experiment, and I do not care what category it will fall into." For his many fans, it may not matter if his works are found in the nonfiction or fiction section of the bookstore. As the writer once suggested, perhaps bookstores need to come up with a new category marked simply "Kapuscinski...