Bookish: From A Yurt & more - (6#) -

Writer Jack Clark earns his livelihood as a taxi cab driver in Chicago. He is the author of three published books. NPR recently caught up with him and his mystery novel Nobody's Angel. Excerpt included.

# Gerald Howard's erudite but thoroughly readable essay about working class American writers begins with a historical survey and then covers Raymond Carver, Russell Banks, Ken Kesey, and Richard Price, among others.

# "good narrative storytelling... can bring us in touch with our shared humanity by telling tales about people - tales we can all relate to, ones that evoke values and sentiments we can all share."

:: Nathaniel Stein: The importance of storytelling.

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# Peter Guttridge and
the crime writers at Edinburgh :: shotsblog ::
:::::::: Edinburgh Book Festival ::

# Ali Karim's recent musings about
The Invention of Morel and more [blog]

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