L ate in his career, the English poet W. H. Auden distilled the whole business of poetry into three pungent lines: “A poet’s hope: to be, / like some valley cheese, / local, b ...
The six authors on the short list for this year's Booker Prize in mid-September are doubtless waiting to see who emerges triumphant on Nov. 12, when the winner is announced at a ceremony in London.
It’s 8am in the morning in San Francisco and the 82-year-old Isabel Allende has already received two emails from readers asking for advice. “People write to me all the time saying they have diaries ...