Fashioning Himself a Hero: Death of Another SalesmanThe Laurel Players is an amateur theater group with high hopes of establishing a loftier cultural standard in their Connecticut suburb, but their short-lived attempt to put on a play is an utter failure. This sets the tone for the rest of the bo...
I identify so deeply with the writing of Richard Yates and am ashamed to just now read his collected stories. Sure, I've read many of them in anthologies and of course Easter Parade and Revolutionary Road. To read the stories is to admit that Yates drew the bulk of his material from his life expe...
RICHARD YATES OP WEG NAAR HET EINDEGenadeloos wist Richard Yates in zijn boeken de zelfkant van de Amerikaanse samenleving in beeld te brengen. Niet door de ogen van een buitenstaander maar van binnenuit opgetekend. In het aangrijpende Een geval van ordeverstoring ging hij nog een stap verder.Het...
As any lover of the arts knows, an artist's reputation depends not only on what society thinks of their work, but also what they think of it over the passage of time, with many creative professionals' careers dipping up and down over the decades based on changing trends and tastes. Take American ...
Dear Richard Yates,I made sure to finish reading your novel Young Hearts Crying in time for your birthday. It’s now the February 3, and dude, if you were alive, you’d have been 84. 84, man, ain’t that swell? Anyway. Happy happy happy birthday to you. I hope you’re having a grand ol’ time wherever...
and another half star for good measure because, without a doubt, richard yates is one of the best prose writers america has seen in the last 50 years. however, "a good school" is a testament to the debilitating power of alcoholism. with "revolutionary road" and "eleven kinds of loneliness", yates...
Cold Spring Harbor, Richard Yates’s ninth book, is a masterly tale about unsettled lives in crisis and in conflict. The time is the first year of the Second World War; the place is a small Long Island town.Evan Shepard, a young machinist newly married to his second wife and expecting his second c...
ROOSEVELT was President-elect there must have been sculptors all over America who wanted a chance to model his head from life, but my mother had connections. One of her closest friends and neighbors, in the Greenwich Village courtyard where we lived, was an amiable man named Howard Whitman who ha...
with whom he now lived were really foster parents, paid by the Welfare Department of the city of New York. A less dedicated or less imaginative teacher might have pressed for more details, but Miss Price was content with the rough outline. It was enough, in fact, to fill her with a sense of missi...
For that reason Alice Prentice had always welcomed sleep, but she suffered an insomniac’s dread of the time just before sleeping, the act of falling asleep itself, the perilous twilight of semi-awareness when the mind must struggle for coherence, when a siren or a cry in the street is the very so...
