Some of Jimmy Breslin’s best work has now been collected and edited by one of Breslin’s true heirs, The New York Times correspondent Dan Barry.
Literature
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Review: The editor who transformed religious publishing
Stephen Prothero’s enriching book, ‘God the Bestseller,’ takes the reader on a journey through the publisher Eugene Exman’s life and works.
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Novelist Mary Beth Keane finds grace in the ‘achingly ordinary’
Mary Beth Keane has staked her claim as a creator of subtle but poignant storytelling.
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The ghosts of James Joyce in Edward P. Jones’s writing
Both Joyce’s and Jones’s stories move us through tragic epiphanies that leave the soul, pained by paralysis, on the threshold of conversion.
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Father Pedro Arrupe: a controversial Jesuit’s bumpy path to sainthood
Pedro Arrupe, S.J., is well on the path to sainthood. So who was he? And why do people have such strong opinions about him?
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Review: In ‘Reading Genesis,’ Marilynne Robinson treats the Bible like a great work of literature
In her latest book, ‘Reading Genesis,’ Marilynne Robinson writes of a God that is in love with humanity. In all our flaws and folly, power and glory, she insists, “Human beings are at the center of it all.”
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‘There goes the jugular’: Wilfrid Sheed and the art of literary criticism
Wilfrid Sheed’s books are a delight to read, but his reviews and essays are his true masterpieces.
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From 1973: Walker Percy on Wilfrid Sheed
In 1973, the famous novelist (and sometime America book reviewer) Walker Percy offered this long review of Wilfrid Sheed’s ‘People Will Always Be Kind.’
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Robert Giroux: the Catholic bookman who edited Merton (and Flannery and Percy and Kerouac)
Robert Giroux edited some of the 20th century’s leading writers, including some prominent Catholic voices like Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy and Thomas Merton.
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Thomas Merton’s editor on the surprise success of ‘The Seven Storey Mountain’
In 1988, famed publisher Robert Giroux related his memories of what it was like to read and publish Thomas Merton’s ‘The Seven Storey Mountain.’