James Salter
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It is an article of faith among readers of fiction that James Salter writes American sentences better than anyone writing today
On the corner stood the diner where he had taken Vivian the first time ... It was not even the diner that Hemingway wrote about, he now knew. That was in another place called Summit, near Chicago, but there had been other misconceptions at the time. He had been wrong about a number of things.More quotes »
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A final flowering that proves an old master can still capture the first flush of youth
describe contemporary life, it’s seldom convincing; if they revert to the past, they tend to repeat themselves for the worse. James Salter, though, escapes these strictures, perhaps because all his work has been about looking at life elegiacally, about treating from This Is London Read more »
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'All That Is' Is Surprising but Inevitable (Review)
Salter”, the name, hovered in the back of my mind for several years. I would see a paperback copy of A Sport and a Pastime, or maybe Salter’s name would come up in a review of a Philip Roth novel. (Roth and Salter are both aging American men who have devoted from PopMatters Read more »
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All That Is
last serious thing James Salter released was in 2006 and it was been a cold long wait for his latest novel, With a kind of anti-career the "writer’s writer" Salter returns with this new novel; where he indulges in a romance ranging over what it really means from EDGE Boston Read more »
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Air Force. He was to be my best friend.' Burning The Days (1997) It was a dear friend who suggested I read the American author James Salter for a little erudite inspiration. Five years ago I was trying to complete a piece of journalism that was stretching from GQ Magazine UK Read more »
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Shorties (James Salter on the Diminishing Power of the Novel, Vampire Weekend Gets Pitchfork's Best Review of the Year So Far, and more)
"I guess I believe it. My feelings are probably more sentimental than rational. The culture is what it is. It reforms itself, it is freshened by certain things, it is polluted by other things, and it continually revives and presents itself. So it's an unfo from largehearted boy Read more »
