Richard Yates

Exchange Rates, short-listed last month for the National Short Story Award, was the first proper short story I've written since I was 22. Read More

It took me a few weeks to read Blake Bailey's exhaustive and exhausting (770 pages tip to tail) biography of John Cheever. Read More

he weekly television dramas of the 1950s were in many respects an unruly, dirty-faced brood of ersatz art; unevenly combining dime store progressivism, woolly performance spontaneity, and impressive feats of technical derring-do, they appear now like primitive relics from an era of confoundingly desultory media developments. Read More

When a coach has a running back like Tyler Jackson, who rushed for 2,072 yards and 27 touchdowns during the regular season, he needs to feed him the ball. Read More

"Screenwriting is not healthy writing," says Richard Price, an acclaimed American novelist-screenwriter who was in İstanbul last weekend to speak in a panel discussion as part of this year's İstanbul Book Fair, which wrapped up last Sunday. Read More

A VETERAN rocker has cycled 140 miles across England to raise £2,000 for the hospital treating his son for leukaemia. Read More

Blake Bailey seems to specialise in writing the lives of self-destructive American writers – first Richard Yates , now John Cheever. Read More

"They fuck you up, your mum and dad," Philip Larkin once famously wrote, and, yes, I suppose mine did me, if not in particularly interesting ways. Read More

When the Civil War broke out, many women were anxious to serve, too, although the Army only accepted male soldiers. Read More

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