This book has three parts: 1, life and time, mostly on the author's life events: divorce, raising children as a single mother, reflecting one's gender during a trip to Asia, a sexual experiment; 2: books and authors, mostly contemporary American writers, 3: the way we live now, cultural observat...
He came back from a trip to New York, in his words, enfeebled and coughing. He went to the doctor, who told him he had pneumonia, and he retreated into one of the boys’ old rooms in his seaside home in Massachusetts and worried about being a burden to his wife, Martha. He wrote to his friend Ted ...
In fact, his immense talent is part of what people seemed to find suspect about him in the years before his death. Critics and writers seem to hold the fact that he writes beautiful sentences against him, as if his writing is too well crafted, too flamboyantly, extravagantly good. James Wood wrot...